[CyberMonkey]

I am trying to get my Indy to boot successfully.

When it attempts to start, I get this error:
   

Afterwards it falls back to the main system menu.

Trying "auto" from the system recovery console give me this:
   

I have tried the internal diagnostics program and it gives me this:
   

Hardware wise, the machine is A-Okay. I suspect something might be amiss with the software installation.

So the main question being, is there a way to salvage this or is it time for a fresh IRIX install?

[nintendoeats]

Is it the original hard drive? When I bought mine it had the same problem.

[kaigan]

It looks to me like the hard drive may be having issues if this was a previously-working IRIX installation. Unless you have any data that needs recovery from the Indy, I'd try reinstalling IRIX. If that fails, it's probably time to find a replacement drive.

[callahan]

Just to add for those who are curious, on the Indy/Indigo2 and older machines the hardware diagnostics (IDE) that you launch from the prom are actually stores on disk (in the volume header along with the sash standalone shell).

Starting with Octane, the diagnostics are in the prom itself.

[jan-jaap]

Just to add for those who are curious, on the Indy/Indigo2 and older machines the hardware diagnostics (IDE) that you launch from the prom are actually stores on disk (in the volume header along with the sash standalone shell).

Starting with Octane, the diagnostics are in the prom itself.

Every system has a set of power-on diagnostics in the PROM firmware. Things like a basic test of the CPU, L1 and L2 cache, RAM, and the first serial port.

The diagnostics (option [3] from the PROM menu) is a standalone program. A standalone program doesn't need the IRIX kernel but operates on bare metal. For older versions of IRIX this is a standalone program embedded in the vh (volume header), for newer IRIX, and all 64bit systems, sash (in the vh) executes '/stand/ide' from the system disk. These diagnostics are installed by IRIX. For some systems they exercise just about any part of the system, but for newer systems the graphics tests (VPRo, IR, other big iron graphics) are not included.

Then there are the online diagnostics (stress test for the system) and the graphics tests for systems where they are not part of the standalone diagnostics. These are part of Field Engineer's Diagnostics discs, and you didn't get those with the system. Instead, you were expected to get a support contract with your big iron, and if it behaved erratically you called support and they'd fix it. Ironically, the IR diagnostics are part of IRIX and the VPro diagnostics are not which is a strange twist of events.

NB: it looks like the system of the O.P. has a wiped, corrupt or missing system disk. The result: PROM cannot load IRIX or standalone diagnostics. If you attach a CD-ROM drive with an IRIX OS installation disc, the PROM will look for diagnostics there as well, and load those if it can't load diagnostics from the system disc.