Howdy -- I'm new to sgi gear. I found a beat up O2 on the sidewalk the other day and now I'm in this forum.
Cleaned it up as best I could, it does start (with green LED) into PROM but won't boot, "dks0d2s8[and s0]: drive is not ready" messages.
I've reset the PROM now so it doesn't even try to boot. Rather noisy whirring suggests the hard drive is spinning.
Downloaded an IRIX 6.5 iso and burned it to CD (from Mac OSX). Installing from PROM options seems to read the CD but immediately throws errors like
"Exception: <vector=Normal> [...lots of what look like memory addresses...] PANIC: Unexpected exception"
Second attempt followed guide online to boot from a network linux box, however boot -f bootp()/stand/fx.ARCS immediately throws very similar errors like
"Exception: <vector=XUT> [...] PANIC: Unexpected exception"
Both these behaviours always repeatable, with what look like different exception details but all with same PANIC conclusion.
Any and all thoughts most welcome -- it would be great to know if it is worse than just a bad hard drive before I try to source a replacement disk.
Cleaned it up as best I could, it does start (with green LED) into PROM but won't boot, "dks0d2s8[and s0]: drive is not ready" messages.
I've reset the PROM now so it doesn't even try to boot. Rather noisy whirring suggests the hard drive is spinning.
Downloaded an IRIX 6.5 iso and burned it to CD (from Mac OSX). Installing from PROM options seems to read the CD but immediately throws errors like
"Exception: <vector=Normal> [...lots of what look like memory addresses...] PANIC: Unexpected exception"
Second attempt followed guide online to boot from a network linux box, however boot -f bootp()/stand/fx.ARCS immediately throws very similar errors like
"Exception: <vector=XUT> [...] PANIC: Unexpected exception"
Both these behaviours always repeatable, with what look like different exception details but all with same PANIC conclusion.
Any and all thoughts most welcome -- it would be great to know if it is worse than just a bad hard drive before I try to source a replacement disk.