[vladio]

Bummer about Nekochan! I haven't turned on the old SGI's in years, powered up the Octane and tried to visit the site and nada. What a wealth of info that was.

I've tried to fire up the Onyx2 over the last couple years and it won't boot. I get the blue screen and it sits there, the graphics module never boots. It's been years since I adopted the Onyx2 from a Nekochan member that was trying to find it a home. It worked, no problems, but I had a hard time finding time to play with it so it's been sitting. I've run into this boot problem before and worked the issue out using the console on my Octane but, for the life of me, I don't remember what I did to get the two to talk. I still have the serial cable connected between the Onyx and the Octane but can't remember the syntax to start the communication. If I remember... it was "cu" something. Can anyone help me out with this? I was a graphics guy, did modeling and animation, but, unfortunately, we worked on PC's in the early 90's so my experience with IRIX is slim. 

Any help is appreciated!