[William D]

I was reading that if I am getting a kernel panic i may need to reload the eoe.sw.base. I was able to network boot my O2 and have it bring up the installer, but after that I am a bit lost as to where I can reload just that part and I have not had any luck with googling it either.

[William D]

Finally got my system running again. I am trying to install some of the software from other sites, the Neko stuff like Firefox for one, and untard the files and started the software manager to install it. But where do I find all the files for all these dependencies? I read there was something that used to take care of all of it, so how does someone go about installing the Neko stuff now?

[Irinikus]

You will literally have to download the relevant dependencies from the ftp and install them individually.

This video that I made will give you some insight as how to accomplish this: https://youtu.be/GX4SilCS16A

[William D]

Quick new question. Can the second drive bay on the O2 5k be hot swapped once the drive is un-mounted, or must it be turned off to swap?

[William D]

Bought 256 mega of ram off ebay, and installed it today. When trying to record some old videos to the machine it just totally locked up. Is there any way to test the ram on an O2?

[dexter1]

Don't hot swap drives on SGI desktop systems. It can be done for certain configurations (i've done it on Origin systems with the help of scsiha command) but the O2 is fragile. I wouldn't risk it.

You can test the memory using IDE. It's not a very thorough test but it gives you an idea if the module is okay.
Go to the O2 PROM, enter '3' or click on "run Diagnostics" and let it run for about 40 minutes.

BTW, make sure the memory modules are inserted properly. Sometimes a re-seat is needed, sometimes cleaning the contacts carefully with alcohol can help resolve spurious issues.

[William D]

I took all the memory out and just installed the 256 Megs and let the diagnostics run, they all passed so I seen there was a memtest2 so I ran that and it passed as well. Does the O2 not like the memory configuration I was running? When I got it it had 64 Megs, I later bought 128 Megs, then just the other day I got 256 Megs, so perhaps it doesn't like the strange combination of the three different sizes? I'm testing it again now with the 256 and 128 leaving out the 64.

[dexter1]

Make sure you sort the pairs of memory from largest to smallest capacity. Then put the largest pair in bank A, the next largest pair in bank B and so forth.