[rescue] Silicon Graphics Iris Crimson 4,400 RISC 150 Mhz

[Big Endian]

>  > >   Although harder to find, there is IRIX 5.3+XFS. So, even on 5.3
>>  >   you4re not always limited to EFS.
>>
>>  Interesting, I haven't seen such a beast.
>
>   Yes, I'm still after it myself.

If you ever find a copy I want an ISO for my IRIX archive.

>  > >   It4s just called sashIP17 (or was that sash.IP17?) and fx.IP17, you
>>  >can4t use sashARCS because Crimson doesn4t have an ARCS PROM. So
>>  >booting your Crimson and running fx from the PROM should look like
>>  >this:
>>  >
>>  >   boot -f dksc(0,Y,8)sashIP17 dksc(0,Y,7)stand/fx.IP17 --x
>>
>>  This will hang.  On *ANY* IP17.  the 6.2 cds have a known bug in the
>>  fx.IP17, google on it.
>
>    Well, not on any IP17. It worked on my Crimson Elan and so did it on
>two Crimson VGXTs a friend of mine owns (from the same CD set). You're
>right, I found a thread on comp.sys.sgi.hardware about fx.IP17 problems,
>but I didn't have those problems. It's been a while I installed 6.2 on my
>machine but I can't remember having done anything special to get it
>working. And it was a clean install of 6.2 on a fresh disk from sash just
>like outlined above. And yes, I fx'ed the disk from fx.IP17. I remember it
>took a looong time for fx to come up, but it finally did.

Ok.  I left it on overnight on both a VGXT and an RE.  I've done it 
from serial console, you name it.  didn't work.  Can you ISO your 6.2 
cd 1 and send it my way?  I'd like to try it.

daniel
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