Re: Help with Indigo2?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ronald Yeager wrote:

> Anybody have some experience with SGI's Indigo2 R10000 machines? We have inherited a couple purple monsters that we are having difficulty loading IRIX 6.3 on. The install tools load and then we get an error saying that "no recognizable file system exists." We did the auto setup on the disk, and it still says this. Can anyone help us? Do we need a special version of IRIX, and is there a version of Linux that runs on these? Maybe Debian? I saw this discussed on the SGI website, but not too promising. Thanks!

Was 6.3 supported on R10Ks? I thought 6.3 only supported up to the R8Ks. In
any event, have you loaded sash64 from the PROM and run fx.64? The disk needs
to be labeled and partitioned ahead of running the installation media:

(from the PROM):

   boot -f dksc(ctlr,id,8)sash64 dksc(ctlr,unit,7)stand/fx.64

Replace ctlr with the controller number and id with the SCSI ID of the CD
drive. You can find out what to use by running hinv before the above command.

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Received on Fri Jan 13 14:56:41 2006