[rescue] SGI Crimson boot sequence?

[Francois Dion]

Andrew Weiss wrote:

> On May 31, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Francois Dion wrote:
>
>>
>> I pulled the RM3s and they turned out to be a pair of RM2s, not RM3. 
>> Since I had a spare RM2, I tried that and it worked. Swapped the 
>> original back in and it worked too, so I guess a bad contact on one 
>> of the RM2 pin or something.
>>
> This means you have a VGX.  Or a half-VGX.  I think mine was like that 
> when I got it (labelled VGXT but actually a VGX) and I had a bad DG 
> board or something.  (it has been a while)... so I went to Dan's place 
> and swapped out like 3 boards.  I got a good DG board and two RM3's as 
> well as a GM3B to replace my GM3
>
> Check here... it's not a Crimson, but it's the same exact machine.

Looks similar to mine, except I only have 14 slots as this is a deskside.

> I think it's supposed to go to a ROM prompt (terminology failing 
> here).  It's a menu of like 5 items and/or it auto-boots the OS.

That's what I tought, but of course it's not happening. I tried 
connecting to the serial port and I'm not getting anything either. A 
crimson only needs pin 2 -> pin 3, pin 3-> pin 2 and groung to ground 
(pin 7 on the crimson side and pin 5 on the laptop side) right, like an 
Onyx or Challenge?

Francois