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From: wmandrus@world.std.com (Wayne R Mandrus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX 3.2.2 and Micronics 486
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.195954.10767@world.std.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 19:59:54 GMT
References: <1990Dec30.002048.8203@world.std.com> <298@shograf.UUCP>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <298@shograf.UUCP> jim@shograf.UUCP (jim morris) writes:
>From article <1990Dec30.002048.8203@world.std.com>, by wmandrus@world.std.com (Wayne R Mandrus):
>> 
>> Is there anyone who has loaded SCO UNIX 3.2.2 on a Micronics 486-25
>> based pc? Specifically, sco will not boot up if the internal cache
>> is enabled. Has anyone seen this or something simular?
>> 
>> -w
>
>I have had the same problem on the Club AT Hawk 3, 33Mhz 486.
>It won't boot unless you start in non-turbo mode. After it has booted
>everything (except TCP/IP) works fine when switched to turbo mode.
>
>Of course SCO and Club AT pointed fingers at each other. I still don't
>know who is to blame (My bet is the H/W). However someone at SCO
>did say that a new boot program is being worked on that will work with
>486's. Ask your SCO tech support person for more info.
>
>If someone actually has this new boot program let us know.
>

After 'pushing' at SCO they in fact have a new boot program available
that fixes boot problems on 486 type machines (i.e. micronics). The
boot program did resolve my problem. 

To get it call sosco and get the file sosco!~/tmp/boot16.Z
The file is not for general release yet, it's strictly a beta product,
but again it fixed my problem.

-w