and if your battery is dead then you may need to buy
a new NVRAM chip (about $15 or $20 i believe)

this is what i had to do for my ss1+

i would consult www.sunhelp.com and look around for the
NVRAM faq/howto

replacing the nvram chip is an easy thing, about 10 mins

good luck

nick

At 07:33 PM 5/22/99 -0700, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 May 1999, Andrew S. Clapp wrote:
>
>#  > 	Could you try booting netbsd.GENERIC when it asks
>#  > 	boot (press RETURN to try default list):
># 
>#  Ah.  I seem to have stumbled upon some bootable configuration here.
>#  sd(0,3,0)netbsd which makes me feel very dumb.  Dooh!  Well, it pays
>#  to understand what you read about 3 and 0 being swapped. 
># 
>#  Next question:  How do I get the "boot-from" in the boot rom to 
>#  remember things from one power off to the next?  Is the battery dead
>#  or is there a "save this" command?
>
>If your ethernet addr comes up as ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, your battery is
>dead.
>
>Otherwise, you should just be able to do
>
>ok setenv boot-from sd(0,3,0)
>ok reset
>
>and it should save it
>
>
># 
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>
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