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From: stickler@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Bootable floppy
Message-ID: <4096.2753b671@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 28 Nov 90 13:06:57 GMT
References: <1990Nov18.223343.564@cjbsys.bdb.com> <12176@scorn.sco.COM>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <12176@scorn.sco.COM>, paulz@sco.COM (W. Paul Zola) writes:
> In article <1990Nov18.223343.564@cjbsys.bdb.com> 
> 		cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore) writes:
> 
>     [detailed problems with creating an emergency boot floppy deleted]
> 
> .. 
> .. SOLUTION: Move the video adapter to an 8 bit slot.
> .. 
> 
> Note that this is a *hardware* problem, and cannot be worked around by any
> software fix.  
> 
> 	-p
> 
> -
> Paul Zola			Software Support Engineer 
> 				paulz@sco.COM 
> We only know in theory what we are doing.   - Kate Bush
>     DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, and not for SCO.

OUCH!

What about if the video adapter is built into the motherboard! :-(

I have had the same problem and was glad to see someone ask about it
(as I was about to ask it myself) - but now the answer appears to be
disasterous for newer machines which strive for the whole computer
on the motherboard - video controller, and FD/HD controllers as well.

I guess that this would make it sort of a software problem seeing as the
hardware *cant* be "fixed".


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