[rescue] SGI Indigo 2 Video Option board question

[David Holland]

Ah, yeah, your right.. mis-read it the first time through. 

I haven't handy access to my Octane at the moment..  

But two things to possibly check... 

(Pardon me if I get the terminology wrong, I'm working from memory, and
I've been doing IRIX for all of < 1 week. :-) ) 

1) the boot prom environment. 

Maintenance Mode->Command Mode->printenv

2) the partition table on the HD could be bad.. boot up fx and
take a gander... FWIW, this is the mile long command I used 
on a Octane to get into fx.. (From Command mode) 

boot -f cdrom(1,6,8)sash64 cdrom(1,6,7)stand/fx.64 --x

Change controller/target/device names as necessary, and appropriate.

(see here: http://obsolete.majix.org/irix/install-fx.shtml )

You might also try booting the copied data manually:

boot -f dksc(0,1,1)unix.IP28 

David

Ps: there's a thread here: that sounds suspiciously similar.. Perhaps
some of the people involved are still on rescue and remember teh
resolution: 

http://www.sunhelp.org/pipermail/geeks/2002-March/015161.html

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:05, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> But it is seeing the media... it copies a ton of data from the cd
> to what I think is the second partition of the hard disk (swap ?)
> when it finishes the copy... it comes up with that error.
> 
> Thanks for the link... I wonder if an Indycam will plug into the
> larger port ?
> 
> -- Curt
> 
> >Subject: Re: [rescue] SGI Indigo 2 Video Option board question
> >From: David Holland <dholland at woh.rr.com>
> >To: "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >Date: 10 Feb 2003 19:42:27 -0500
> >Cc: Rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >Reply-To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> >
> >A little deja news turns up: 
> >
> >http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=3BB6DAB9.60
> 834AC7%40sgi.com&rnum=8&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8
> %26q%3Dmgv1%2Bsgi%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg
> >
> >"It lets you hook up a camera, and some video inputs."
> >
> >Regarding your failed CD boot.  It sounds more like the CD drive isn't
> >seeing the media. 
> >
> >"Unable to execute scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)/unix.IP28: media
> >not loaded"
> >
> >David
> >
> >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:29, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> >> I've discovered the Indigo 2 10000 with MaxImpact graphics that I aquired
> >> also has an MGV1 video option board.
> >>  
> >> Also, I'm surprised nobody had any information about my failure to boot
> >> Irix 6.2 Install CD....
> >> 
> >> -- Curt
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