I was just give a SGI Fuel workstation which I planning on running OpenBSD on, but trying to boot the light turns a solid red and the workstation shutdown.
This sounds like a faulty environmental control. Many older Fuels do this and need to have environment monitoring disabled from L1. See this thread on nekochan for information about this, and especially how to connect to the Fuel internal L1, check the environmental status, and disable monitoring if needed: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11268
I can't seem to find a manual for the fuel online, does anyone have a electronic version of the manual or can they tell me what the solid red light means.
The manual can be read inline or downloaded from: http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?coll=hdwr&db=bks&cmd=toc&pth=/SGI_EndUser/Fuel_UG Miod