SVR4.0

[Rick Kelly]

In article <1991Apr13.034245.13047 at shared.uucp> davec at shared.uucp (Dave Close) writes:
>In article <1991Apr6.184400.47303 at cc.usu.edu> jrd at 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.

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