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> We have an old Acer Altos 7000/P (90MHz Pentium, 64MB, Specialix Rio multiport serial card (EISA version),
> Adaptec 7800 series SCSI chipset on motherboard, Racal Interlan PCI/T2 Network card,
>  2 1Gb hard drives, 1 9 Gb hard drive, SCSI CD-ROM and QIC cartridge tape drive)

> It's been running OpenServer 5.0.2 for almost a year.  Yesterday, we tried to install 5.0.5.
> We put the boot diskette in ,  powered on, got the "boot:" prompt, pressed <Enter>, kernel seemed to be
> loading fine.  It got to the point where it lists the hardware along with the kernel init letters (A, B, C, etc)
> and when it got to "G mp_pciinit) it just stopped.  We tried again.  Same result.  Tried the diskette on
> another machine.  Works fine.  We let the machine hang at G for 30 minutes, just in case there was a
> timeout.  No such luck.  I've plowed through the SCO docs, the SCO website, every search engine I can find.
> I'm completely stumped.

> I know the this Acer 7000/P is multiprocessor-capable, but we certainly don't have more than one CPU
> (I know, I've had it open several times).  Could that have anything to do with it?  We didn't install
>  the current 5.0.2, so I can't say what happened during that install.  I'm really stumped!  I've spent
>  the last week installing and re-installing 5.0.2 and 5.0.5 on another test machine just to get
>  ready to update our live server, and now I can't even get it to boot off the 5.0.5 floppy disk!
>  Calgon, take me away (for those of you old enough to remember that :)   )

> Thanks for ANY help!

> Much appreciated!

>   -Jimmy Madden

> We have an old Acer Altos 7000/P (90MHz Pentium, 64MB, Specialix Rio multiport serial card (EISA version),
> Adaptec 7800 series SCSI chipset on motherboard, Racal Interlan PCI/T2 Network card,