SCO 5.0.4/5 stops at boot: prompt on a fresh install in a VMware workstation

Hello,
I'm a complete newbie with SCO, but not to UNIX. A client of mine has
an old SCO 5.0.5 server running a very small Progress database and the
hardware is finally dying. We're going to run it in a VMware
workstation, at the moment, with IDE disks, which seems to be working
after some simple hackery with 5.0.7 install floppy images... but it
works.

I've done a clean install into the VM, applied the licence keys, but
every time I try and boot the VM it stops at the boot: prompt.
Hitting return makes it boot, and it then asks to be licenced, and
then asks for the root password or ^d to continue into normal mode. I
can ^d in and it seems to run ok from then on.

Can anyone here point me at what I need to do to get it to boot up
multi user without needing user input on the (virtual) console?

More background if it helps :

I have a CPIO archive of the existing system that I want to restore on
top of the VM once this is working, so I can get it working with a
minimum of fuss in a hurry. Any tips or caveats to doing this? I
expect the kernel might get upset, or maybe the licence will stop
moaning?

Thanks!

Carl
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