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From: mjy@sdti.UUCP (Michael J. Young)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Microport 386 install problems
Message-ID: <267@sdti.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 14:47:00 GMT
References: <365@tandem.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjy@sdti.UUCP (0000-Michael J. Young)
Organization: Software Development Technologies, Sudbury MA
Lines: 17

In article <365@tandem.UUCP> narayan@tandem.UUCP (Narayan Mohanram) writes:
>... Microport
>tech support is not much help. They asked me about my EGA card, and
>told me that this was the problem. However I pointed out to them
>that the EGA card must be OK if I can get PANIC messages, and
>register dumps to my screen. 

I'm no expert, but I do know that the kernel version of putchar() that
actually writes to the console (indirectly used by panic()) is MUCH
simpler than the console driver.  It wouldn't surprise me in the least that
you can get panic messages and still have an unsupported EGA card.

Try Microport's suggestion first, and if that fails, then flame.
-- 
Mike Young - Software Development Technologies, Inc., Sudbury MA 01776
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