SCO Unix booting problem
Deryk Barker
DBarker at system-m.phx.bull.com
Fri Jun 15 10:48:15 AEST 1990
Further to my original message: I had several discussions with SCO tech
support who could shed no light on this whatsoever. One thing I did notice,
quite serendipitously, was that the locking/non-locking of the keyboard seemed
to be related to the moment when I first tried to press a key. There is a
brief window which lasts approximately from the point at which the system
announces its copyright notices to the point at which it announces the
bootload device: touch a key during that window and YOU'RE DEAD. The system
comes up OK and will run quite happily as long as you don't wish to use the
keyboard. As long as you keep your ****ing paws off the keyboard during this
window everything is AOK. SCO tech support confirm that this also happens on
one of their in-house systems, but it doesn't happen with Xenix. You have
been warned...
Deryk Barker,
Jupiter Software,
Victoria, BC
"Send Lawyers, guns and money,
Dad, get me out of this"
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