Re: [Partly OT] Help with Indigo2?

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> Sounds like the drive hasn't been prepped, you need to repartition with
> fx.ARCS or fx.64 from the boot cd's sash(64)?.
>
> Try this with the IRIX boot CD:
>
> enter the PROM shell and execute the following (for R4x000 machines):
>
> boot -f dksc(ctlr,drv,8)sashARCS dksc(ctrl,drv,7)stand/fx.ARCS
>
> or, for R10000 machines:
>
> boot -f dksc(ctlr,drv,8)sash64 dksc(ctrl,drv,7)stand/fx.64
>
> From there you can run diagnostics on the drive, reformat/partition, etc.

Like an idiot I forgot to specify that you need to replace ctrl and drv with
the appropriate integers. Check the output of hinv from the PROM shell for
the correct values.

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Received on Mon Aug 8 10:38:51 2005