Greetings;
Decided to fire up yet another previously unchecked box in the collection,
and after the normal preliminaries cranked it up, and found that it boots
to Xenix v3.0b. And of course, with the usual problems... No docs, and no
passwords...
Tried some of the more common openings, with no success so far... And I've
watched the boot process, and don't see any opportunity to abort to 'single
user' mode... Suggestions???
I can abort the boot all together, and end up at the following screen:
ALTOS COMPUTER SYSTEMS - 586
Monitor Version V1.1
Press any key to interrupt boot
Enter [1] to boot from Hard Disk
Enter [2] to boot from Floppy Disk
Enter [3] to enter Monitor
Booting from the hard disk takes me back to Xenix, I have no floppies so
that one is out for the moment, and going to the 'monitor' gets me this:
Enter option: 3
< A, B, D, G, I, K, L, M, O, R, S, X >
Anyone have any insights as to what these commands are? (don't want to
stumble onto a HD init by accident)
When Xenix boots, it indicates that the machine has 840k of RAM, but says
little else. I'm not even sure right at the moment what processor is in
it. (not dug that far under the panels)
Anyone familiar with this particular machine, and/or this variant of Xenix
that might be able to provide some insights? Any thoughts would be
appreciated!
Thanks!
-jim
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Received on Thu Dec 25 1997 - 23:39:33 GMT