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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SVR4.0
Message-ID: <9104152217.20@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 91 07:35:00 GMT
References: <9104051959.AA23768@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr6.184400.47303@cc.usu.edu> <1991Apr13.034245.13047@shared.uucp>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991Apr13.034245.13047@shared.uucp> davec@shared.uucp (Dave Close) writes:
>In article <1991Apr6.184400.47303@cc.usu.edu> jrd@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>	Two pieces of free advice:
>>...
>>	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.
>
>My Northgate Elegance 386 boots Intel SVr4 fine with the AMI BIOS.


I think jrd has it bass ackwards.  SVr4 doesn't like shadowed BIOS.  Phoenix
doesn't allow you to turn off BIOS shadowing in the set-up program, while
AMI does.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP