Indigo2 Impact mysterious Irix install woes
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Indigo2 Impact mysterious Irix install woes
I've had this Indigo2 Impact for years. When I purchased it , it was diskless. I turned it on, it chimed and on the screen I saw the familiar menu so I powered it off and never gave it a second thought , for years. Now fast forward to last week. I prepped a disk, put it in one of the drive trays, fired on my raspi-booterizer and that's when issues began. Any attempt to install Irix would end up with A) a black/blank screen or B) hanging indefinitely , right after the copying of the miniroot. I have tried several things, including different Irix versions, installing irix 6.5.22 on an Octane and then moving the disk to the Indigo2, Installing via Cdrom, Installing via Network, Installing headless using a serial line etc. At some point I tried installing OpenBSD 6.7 on it , which succeeded. So I am like : wtf? right? Now I am running the diagnostics from the prom menu and we'll see if it finds anything. The only indications of something amiss is that, when I tried running Irix from the disk I installed in my Octane (and moved to the Indigo), it gave an error:

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5) Enter Command Monitor                                                 
                                                                         
Option? 1                                                                


                           Starting up the system...
                                                                               
                                                                               
Exception: <vector=Normal>                                                     
Status register: 0xa2<IPL=8,KX,UX,MODE=KERNEL>                                 
Cause register: 0xffffffff80000014<BD,CE=0,EXC=WADE>                           
Exception PC: 0xa8000000200050b8, Exception RA: 0xa800000020189894             
Write address error exception, bad address: 0xa7fffffb1f8f2888                 
Local I/O interrupt register 2: 0x0xc8<EISA,SLOT0,SLOT1>                       
  Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0x9000000020f01dd8, &_regs 0x9000000020f01fd8):
  arg: 0 3ffffffffffff a800000020494000 a7fffffb1f8f2880 a800000000000000 fffff8
  tmp: a800000000000000 0 1 ffffffff9fc62050                                   
  sve: 8125 9000000020f0b040 9000000027fff438 9000000027fff7c8 ffffffff9fc521480
  t8 0 t9 8 at 0 v0 ffffffffaff50000 v1 0 k1 ffffffffbad11bad                  
  gp a8000000203f1d70 fp 9000000027facfb8 sp a8000000203d2540 ra a80000002018984
                                                                               
PANIC: Unexpected exception

This is the results of diagnostics:

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Option? 3                                                                      
                                                                               
                                                                               
                         Starting diagnostic program...                        
                                                                               
                       Press <Esc> to return to the menu.                      
                                                                               
              Checking for Distribution CD-ROM on scsi(0)cdrom(3).             
                     Booting IDE from Distribution CD-ROM.                     
                                                                               
SGI Version 6.5 IP28 IDE field  Apr  4, 2002                                   
                                                                               
                   System: IP28                                                
                Processor: 175 Mhz R10000, with FPU                            
     Primary I-cache size: 32 Kbytes                                           
     Primary D-cache size: 32 Kbytes                                           
     Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes                                         
              Memory size: 128 Mbytes                                          
                 Graphics: Solid Impact                                        
                SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)                                      
               SCSI CDROM: scsi(0)cdrom(3)                                     
                                                                               
Testing Impact graphics.                                                       
TEST RESULTS:                                                                  
CPU tests completed.                                                           
FPU tests completed.                                                           
Audio tests completed.                                                         
SCSI tests completed.                                                          
Impact graphics board tests completed.                                         
Diagnostics completed - press <Enter> to continue                              
                                                                               
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Do you guys have any idea what this may be? I have been told I should take it apart and reassemble it. Do you have any guidance on how to dismantle it completely? Ideas? Tips?

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Indigo2 Impact mysterious Irix install woes - by roach-commuter - 01-03-2021, 01:47 PM
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