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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SVR4.0
Message-ID: <3709@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 91 03:52:00 GMT
References: <9104051959.AA23768@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr6.184400.47303@cc.usu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991Apr6.184400.47303@cc.usu.edu> jrd@cc.usu.edu writes:

| 	2. determine whether your machine will even boot that Unix. For
| example, most AMI Bios machines I've checked will not boot AT&T's SVR4,
| but a Phoenix Bios is just fine.

  With AMI BIOS I am 3 for 3 using Dell V.4, 2 for 2 using Intel. That
seems to indicate a certain lack of a general problem, although there
may be individual cases. Also, the BIOS may have nothing to do with the
problem, there are lots of other hardware limitations.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me