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From: jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: HELP! - SCO not booting - workaround for proprietary version
Message-ID: <1422@necis.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 91 17:27:46 GMT
References: <24687@well.sf.ca.us> <9105162217.23@rmkhome.UUCP>
Reply-To: jjp@necis.UUCP (Jeff Phillips)
Organization: NEC Technologies, Inc., Boxborough, MA
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In article <9105162217.23@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>In article <24687@well.sf.ca.us> nlane@well.sf.ca.us (Nathan D. Lane) writes:
>>kernel panic: *** Wyse SCO/Xenix will not run on non-Wyse machines ***
>How far does your system boot before it gets the message?
>If the test is embedded in the kernel, then you are out of luck.

I believe that message is coming from /boot, not the kernel.  To find out,
replace your Wyse /boot file with a copy of a vanilla SCO /boot file on your
N1 diskette.  This assumes, of course, that you can get your hands on a set
of vanilla SCO sfwr.  :-)
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