[rescue] SGI Crimson boot sequence?

[Andrew Weiss]

On May 31, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Francois Dion wrote:

>
> Looks similar to mine, except I only have 14 slots as this is a 
> deskside.
>
I meant the same machine internally (arch) and cards-wise.  I also had 
the deskside box.

>> 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?
>
I don't really know.  I never had to hook a serial terminal up.  My 
graphics head always worked from the start.

Andrew

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