> I got an off-list reply where someone had a similar problem with his onyx > 4. He suggested to use the serial port instead of the console port . So I > did, plugged another serial cable to the serial port on the i-brick and > here it goes, the dmesg from the origin booting the bsd.rd.IP27 ramdisk:
This was indeed the right thing to do. INSTALL.sgi mentions this serial console setup, but it's probably not clear enough. Anyone willing to rewrite this text? > mainbus0 at root: Unknown IP35 type 0 Wow. I would not have expected this. Can you send the output of `hinv -mvvv' of this machine at the PROM `>>>' prompt? I would have expected Origin 3000 to report themselves as Origin 300. Oh well. > iec0 at ioc0: 128KB SSRAM, address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff This is bad. On these systems, the Ethernet address is obtained by querying the brick L1 controller for the proper IA record. Either the query failed or the Ethernet address is stored elsewhere. Can you send the output of `eeprom' at the `L1>' prompt? (you will probably need to hit ^T or ^D on the L1 serial port to get such a prompt) > now I need to check whether I really have no harddisk in the box, or wheter > I can plug in a usb drive. Well, I am quite surprised no SCSI controller shows up, but I am quite positive the PCI device enumeration code works. This is one more reason to check against what `hinv' reports. Miod
