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

[Brian Chapman]

In article <1234 at Portia.Stanford.EDU> karish at forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
>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. 
>

Make sure you have one of the real PC-clone type vectras.  There
are older 286 Vectras that required a special vectra version of
2.2 SCO Xenix.   Also the special vectra version will not run
on the later true clones.

Note: there is nothing _wrong_ with the old non-clone Vectras.
Hp had a few features that were "better than" IBM compatible
and it took them a while to part with them.
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Brian Chapman		uunet!sco!chapman	SCO UNIX 3.2 Development