[s0ke]

The system kept stopping at:

Code:

A 000 001c01: POD SysCt Dex> why
A 000 001c01:  EPC    : 0xc00000001fc05c38 (0xc00000001fc05c38)
A 000 001c01:  ERREPC : 0x0100020000302000 (0x100020000302000)
A 000 001c01:  CACERR : 0x000000004a98110a
A 000 001c01:  Status : 0x0000000024407c80
A 000 001c01:  BadVA  : 0xc00000001fc05c38 (0xc00000001fc05c38)
A 000 001c01:  RA     : 0xffffffffbfc38a4c (0xc00000001fc38a4c)
A 000 001c01:  SP     : 0xa800000000103650
A 000 001c01:  A0     : 0x0000000000000000
A 000 001c01:  Cause  : 0x0000000000008008 (INT:8------- <Load TLB Miss>)
A 000 001c01:  Reason : 245 (Unexpected XTLB Refill Exception.)
A 000 001c01:  POD mode was called from: 0xc00000001fc01fe4 (0xc00000001fc01fe4)

Turns out because the snaphat was dead and nvram was resetting back to

Code:

console g

instead of

Code:

console d

which is what I needed as the machine has no peripherals attached. Doh! Snaphat replaced and POD cleared and debug set back to 0. No more issues. Irix installed via bootp/tftp.