SCO 5.0.5 boot problems after card install

[ucb]

Hi,
I've a industrial PC (crystal) running SCO 5.0.5. I added a linksys 10BT ISA card. Using scoadmin I successfully added the card as a NE2000 compatiable lan adapter which it is. According to scoadmin it was successfully added and configured (card activity indicator also lit). When exiting SCO it asked did I want to save the kernel changes and rebuild and I selected "NO" as I was only testing the procedure for installation.
Since this the server reboots, begins to boot successfully from disk as far as a screen which has accross the top
device address vec dma comment
All system devices are listed below this.

Then it prints out the memory, the swap dev, rootdev and kernel and then hangs. I've tried it with both the cardin and out.
2 questions:

1. What went wrong? I know I configured the card successfully but on exiting scoadmin I selected not to save the changes and not rebuild the kernel.

2. Is it recoverable from this or do I need to reinstall? (There's no CD rom or floppy drive on the machine at the moment)

TIA

 

[pcunix]

Probably not the card since you did not relink a new kernel.

Can you get into single user mode? Or with "unix.old"?

Two major things can cause this kind of hang: missing inittab (in which case you won't get into single user mode either and unix.old won't help) or something hanging in /etc/rc2.d. If it's the latter, you will be able to get in single user and you can examine /etc/rc2.d/messages/* to see what ran and what didn't (based on date- do an ls -l).

Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com