Subject: Re: boot failure on Ultra/10
To: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/31/2000 12:14:15
> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> writes:
> 
> > Oh, yuck. It sounds like it overwrote NVRAM. This is bad.
> 
> :)  Yeah, that's kind of what I figured, too.
> 
> Any thoughts on fixing it?  I can do a set-defaults, but the ether
> address is still 0.
> 
> I hope I don't have to leave this box in this condition...

Now, I really don't know the internals of Ultras that well about this... for
the older Sparc machines (e..g, SS2, IPC, etc.), this stuff is stored on the
MOSTEK Timer/NVRAM pluggable chip. Because this also contains the hostid for
the machine, it's been made very non-obvious as to how to change it or rewrite
it (which ultimately was stupid, because anyone with an ounce of kernel
hacking skills can use adb -k on solaris and (re)set the hostid so that
licence keys match to what you want).

Somewhere in info/URLs is the sequence that you can type into the prom to
reset things for an SS1 and an SS2. I have no idea about Ultras. Hopefully
Eduardo will tell me I'm completely nuts and something else can be done to
help you.

-matt