[weblacky]

I realize I'm totally out of my league here but I'm going to ask a very stupid question, is there a reason you're loading Irix 4.0.1...when there was a disk of Irix 4.0.5 for this system...donated by you...here: https://jrra.zone/sgi/cds/IRIX%204.0.5.iso

http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems...ional.html

Claims you would use 4D1-4.0.5 that has clover 1 support as the last OS for this system.

Wouldn't you hope that the above version would have all the answers for this system, being that it should be the last official version for it?

Cheers!

Another day, another challenge.

I managed to load IRIX 4.0.1 on the system. Remember: this system does not have an ethernet adapter, no external SCSI port and the tapedrive is unusable. So, basically I did:

* dd an IRIX 4.0.1 CDROM to a SCSI harddisk (ID: #4), and attach this disk to the port of the tapedrive.
* boot dksc(0,4,8)sash.IP4 from the disk and load fx.
* 'fx' the disk with default layout
* reboot
* boot dksc(0,4,8)sash.IP4 from the disk and copy the miniroot (mr) to the swap partition, dksc(0,1,1)
* boot dksc(0,1,1)unix.IP4
* when the miniroot loads, enter admin>sh and mount the sw distribution from disk4.
* perform installation
* umount sw distribution
* it hangs shutting down. I finally reset the system.

I can boot this system in single user mode: boot -f dksc(0,1,0)unix initstate=s
I can then fsck and mount the /usr partition.

But any attempt to switch runlevels hangs the system. This includes shutdown, reboot, init 2, regular boot (hangs after mounting filesystems), shutting down in the miniroot etc.

I pulled the graphics: this makes no difference.

I think it has to do with one unique aspect of this system: it has no network interface at all. And that's the original config: the ribbon cable of the ethernet bulkhead is still wrapped up with a zip tie.

Regardless of having no network interface, it has an /etc/sys_id file (value: IRIS), and 'IRIS' exists in /etc/hosts (value: 192.0.2.1). But any attempt to run '/usr/etc/ping IRIS' hangs the system.

I used chkconfig to disable everything related to TCP/IP networking.

I wonder if I need a special kernel command line, or a special kernel config to run without ethernet. Some kernel commandline arguments exist, e.g. initstate and showconfig, but I can't find anything network related. /usr/sysgen/master.d has quite a new network related variables but I couldn't find anything that looked like it was a "disable the network" toggle.

Anybody got any clues? Other than IP4, an SGI without any network doesn't really exist.