SCO Xenix 2.2.3 boot problem for HP Vectra ES/12 286 (with HP EGA)

[Chuck Karish]

In article <2300001 at hpldsla.HP.COM> mjoshi at hpldsla.HP.COM wrote:
>I have a problem with booting SCO Xenix 2.2.3 on an HP Vectra 
>ES/12 286 AT box. The problem occurs when booting from floppy
>for the filesystem (N2) part of the OS. The screen blanks out
>and the Vectra just dies. 

I had a similar problem a couple of days ago, on a 6 MHz IBM PC-AT
with a true-blue EGA.  Mine gave a blank screen with a lonely cursor
when I tried to boot from the hard disk.  It worked after I removed
cards that XENIX didn't recognize (Ethernet card, tape drive card).
These cards worked OK after XENIX was fully installed.

A friend tells me he had to install an IBM mono card and an IBM monitor
on systems he was upgrading to 2.2.3.  He couldn't do the installation
properly on his Hercules (Hercules clone?) adapters.

	Chuck Karish	hplabs!hpda!mindcrf!karish	(415) 493-7277
			karish at forel.stanford.edu