Xenix/386 v2.2.1 on a TeleVideo...Help !

[Karl Denninger]

In article <527 at extro.ucc.su.oz> glenn at extro.UUCP (Glenn Geers) writes:
>
>I have had quite a bit of experience installing xenix on 286 machines, however
>, my knowledge of the 386 product is limited.
>The hardware we have is a TeleVideo 386/16 with one floppy and a 40 Mb (type
>14) hard disk. The configuration is set as 16 MHz cpu 5.3MHz bus video and bios
>slow (I've tried lots of configurations - this is as delivered).

Bios slow?  What's that?  Are you talking about a TELOAS, or a Tele-386?  I
will assume you're speaking of the Tele-386, not the TELOAS.

>Now for the problem:
>386 Xenix 2.2.1 doesn't boot (Boots on one of our Compaq's so the disk is ok)
>However, 286 Xenix and Microport both boot and run (as expected).

Microport also asks you if you're installing on a Televideo, no?  And you
answered "yes"?

>Has anyone experienced this problem ? How do you get around it ?
>
>Failing that can someone in Cal give me TeleVideo's phone number or, even
>better, an email address ?

If you have the Televideo disk controller board (you can tell because it has
LOTS of components on it -- and a Televideo legend) you must change it out
for a WD1003, WD1006 or compatible board.  The Televideo board is a special 
track-buffered controller, and will not function with Xenix 386, or most 
other operating systems.  Microport has special code in it to deal with 
this board due to their past association with Televideo.

Once you have done this, you should have no further problems.  In fact, the
system I am posting this from is a Televideo TELE-386 (16 Mhz, 4MB RAM, etc)
-- sounds like we have the same machine :-)  They are nice and reliable.

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