[48796] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Case 154803: Bad SGIs Culdee-Sodor-Trevor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Oct 15 00:41:19 1999
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 17:55:46 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> hostname: culdee
> problem: during the installation process, it is stuck in pass 3
The R5000/XZ machines should now all be up and running Athena 8.3/IRIX 6.5;
this was done by installing 8.2/6.2, and updating. (There was a problem
with the sgi62 install that required a custom install as a workaround,
but I have now fixed that problem).
I still do not know why the machines cannot install 6.5 directly. I don't
think it has anything to do with the R5000/XZ graphics combination per se,
as the machines seemed to be in an I/O-related hang. I was able to resume
the install manually after rebooting. I am more suspicious that the machines
I looked at all had R5000 revision 1.0.
The next step would be to try and reproduce the problem on a test machine.
If possible, it would also be interesting to try a newer rev R5000 in one
of these machines.
Bob
