[gtaSAGE-members] Ultra5 won't boot anymore.

[Julian C. Dunn]

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 14:19, Adrian Chung wrote:
> Being SPARC illiterate, I'm hoping that someone else might be able to
> point me in the right direction.

Just before you declare the NVRAM dead, try to "reset-factory-defaults"
(or whatever the command is -- I don't have my U10 powered on right
now). However, from the error messages it looks like the chip is fried.
I presume that out of the output

> MESSAGE=NVRAM at U1402 is not present/good
>         addr ffffffff.f1001db0
>         exp  0000
>         obs  ffff

"exp" == expected, "obs" == observed. As you probably well know, when
the NVRAM is toast the host ID and ethernet address get set to all ones,
so this would suggest to me that it is indeed the case.

> The strange thing is, the same thing happens if I pull the NVRAM chip
> and boot it up as well.

Again, it would suggest that the NVRAM is doing no use being in there.

- Julian
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