The collected works of natocccp

Hello everyone,

after only seeing SGI on movies and reading about SGI machines on web, finally managed to get one Indigo2 IMPACT10000.

No keyboard, no mouse, no monitor, no documentation, no CDs and no CD device ... only the pink box...
On power on plays some melody and that is all that I get from the box at moment... but I'm so happy.

Just wanted to share my excitement and to say hello to all SGI aficionados.

Thank you.

It has a two disks. Don't have any info about machine specs. Bougth on ebay "13W3-M Male to HD15 cable adapter for SGI Indy Octane Indigo2 workstation PC/VGA", it will be a few weeks before I can attach monitor.

Regarding headless, don't have DIN8 to USB with some converter in betwwen. I will wait for 13W3, to see what is on the pink machine.

Hello,

does attached screenshot of Indigo2 booting means that disks are dead or file system is damaged?





Any idea how to login if user and password are not provided? No CDROM device installed in the box nor CD media with IRIX availabe at moment.

Thanks in advance,
Regards

Hello,

bought new VGA cable and colors are now better.

After waching some YouTube videos with IRIX, my conclusion is that file system level of demage is large enough to render system unable to login, i.e. that is not issue with root password, but root account intself doesnt exists. Here is image of login screen, there is no icon for root account:



Can anyone confirm that there must be at least one avatar on login screen for login.

Also found out what is actualy inside the machine:



Does line:

SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(2)

means that there are two disk in machine or there is only one disk with ID=2?
Do I have to have two SCSI Disk lines if I have two disks?

Thanks in advance,
Regards

Hello,

with difficulty to find cd-rom device for SGI attepmted to reset password with network boot.

Thank you for all links.

Reached this point in net boot with Indigo:



Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Regards