[Tephran]

The perplexing bit is that I'm stuck at the following prompt and not the POD menu:

A 000 001c01: *** Entering POD mode on node 0
A 000 001c01: POD SysCt Cac>

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I did enable verbose boot mode; however, I cannot seem to get the right command to disable it.

[jan-jaap]

The perplexing bit is that I'm stuck at the following prompt and not the POD menu:

A 000 001c01: *** Entering POD mode on node 0
A 000 001c01: POD SysCt Cac>

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I did enable verbose boot mode; however, I cannot seem to get the right command to disable it.

Non-standard behavior starts much earlier, here:

Code:

*** Warning: System controller debug switches are non-zero (0x10d)
*** Diag level set to None (2)

The L1 controller virtual debug switches are documented here: https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/hdw...n_Chpt3-24

Basically, this value for the debug switches (No diags, ignore disabled hardware, boot straight to CAC mode) is only suitable to get some interaction going with a broken or at least thoroughly confused system. If (for example) you've got a faulty DIMM in the system, and move it around the system, you may end up with all memory disabled. You may accidentally disable all CPUs. Things like that.

If someone would drop this system in my lap, with no additional information I would:

1. From the CAC prompt, issue:

Code:

clearalllogs
initalllogs
flush
reset

This makes the system 'forget' NUMA topology and probed hardware, and clear any disabled hardware.

2. Go to the L1 prompt and change the virtual debug switches:

Code:

debug 0x0000

3. Try to boot the system.

Other relevant discussion in the past: https://gainos.org/~elf/sgi/nekonomicon/...613/1.html

[Tephran]

Jan-Jaap, Thank you for providing the thread from Nekochan. I was going off of another that wasn't providing a complete picture. This does allow me to boot into the POD menu and go into Irix.

I have to go through these steps each cold boot, seems the changes are not being saved.