Tanks for the info. It worked.

>Use the following line for booting:

>#>> boot -f scsi(0)cdrom(2)rdisk(0)partition(8)aoutboot

>That worked for my machine, and I think it will for yours.

BTW it is written in plain english in the INSTALL notes ... shame on me :(

> I can boot the machine from cd, no problem there. Everything starts just
> fine - except, that I get uncountable green error messages, stating this:
> int0: unexpected local0 interrupt 0

Same for me on an IP22 indy.
The installation with a serial console worked fine.
Same problem when booting the installed system
while it works fine with a serial console.

Below is the install log.

Regards,
Thierry.

System Maintenance Menu

1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor

Option? 1


                           Starting up the system...


NetBSD/sgimips 3.99.3 Bootstrap, Revision 1.2
(martin@night-porter.duskware.de, Sat Apr 23 15:09:58 CEST 2005)

devopen: scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0) type scsi file netbsd
3349616+209260 [115792+100239]=0x399d60
[ Kernel symbol table missing! ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 3.99.3 (GENERIC32_IP2x) #1: Sat Apr 23 15:20:23 CEST 2005
        
martin@night-porter.duskware.de:/usr/obj/o2/sys/arch/sgimips/compile/GEx
total memory = 128 MB
(768 KB reserved for ARCS)
avail memory = 120 MB
mainbus0 (root): SGI-IP22 [SGI, 6906e152], 1 processor
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R4400 CPU (0x450) Rev. 5.0 with MIPS R4010 FPC Rev. 0.0
cpu0: 16KB/16B direct-mapped L1 Instruction cache, 48 TLB entries
cpu0: 16KB/16B direct-mapped write-back L1 Data cache
cpu0: 1024KB/128B direct-mapped write-back L2 Unified cache
ioc0 at mainbus0 addr 0x1fbd9800: rev 0, machine Indy (Guiness), board rev 0
int0 at mainbus0 addr 0x1fbd9880: bus 75MHz, CPU 150MHz
imc0 at mainbus0 addr 0x1fa00000: revision 3
gio0 at imc0
newport0 at gio0 slot 2 addr 0x1f000000: SGI NG1 (board revision 2, cmap 
revisi8
wsdisplay0 at newport0 kbdmux 1
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
hpc0 at gio0 addr 0x1fb80000: SGI HPC3
zsc0 at hpc0 offset 0x59830
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 1 (console i/o)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 0
pckbc0 at hpc0 offset 0x59840
sq0 at hpc0 offset 0x54000: SGI Seeq 80c03
sq0: Ethernet address 08:00:69:06:e1:52
wdsc0 at hpc0 offset 0x44000: WD33C93B SCSI, rev=0, target 0
scsibus0 at wdsc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
dsclock0 at hpc0 offset 0x60000
haltwo0 at hpc0 offset 0x58000: HAL2 revision 4.1.0
audio0 at haltwo0: half duplex
biomask 07 netmask 07 ttymask 0f clockmask bf
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <SGI, IBM  0662 S12, 1S11> disk fixed
sd0: 1003 MB, 4119 cyl, 5 head, 99 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2055035 sectors
sd0: sync (200.00ns offset 12), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
cd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-504, ST23> cdrom 
removable
cd0: sync (200.00ns offset 12), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs
Thu Apr 28 15:03:09 CEST 2005
swapctl: adding /dev/sd0b as swap device at priority 0
Checking for botched superblock upgrades: done.
Starting file system checks:
/dev/rsd0a: file system is clean; not checking
Setting tty flags.
Setting sysctl variables:
Starting network.
/etc/rc: WARNING: $hostname not set.
IPv6 mode: host
Configuring network interfaces:.
Building databases...
Starting syslogd.
Checking for core dump...
savecore: no core dump
Mounting all filesystems...
Clearing /tmp.
Checking quotas: done.
Setting securelevel: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
Starting virecover.
Starting local daemons:.
Updating motd.
Starting sendmail.
Starting inetd.
Starting cron.
Thu Apr 28 15:03:28 CEST 2005

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