help (re) booting xenix after cmos battery failure

[Doc Shipley]

Brad Parker wrote:
> A friend of a friend has an old xenix machine; Compaq DeskPro 386
> running Xenix.  He shut if off after running for years and it won't
> boot because the cmos battery is dead.
> 
> The disk is an ESDI drive attached to a Compaq ESDI/FLPY controller
> (copyright 1989) ISA bus card.
> 
> He says can't see any way to enter a "setup" mode in the BIOS.

   If the system has a diag partition, as a lot of Compaqs did, he'll 
need to hit F10 at boot time.  The cursor will move from upper left 
corner to upper right on the screen, and you've got maybe 2 seconds to 
hit F10.

   Failing that, I might have the diagnostic/setup floppy image.  I'll 
look for it this evening.


	Doc Shipley