Re: your mail

[Wayne Knowles <wdk%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Nguyen Long wrote:

> To whom it may concern,
>  I have this sparcstation 2, that i believe has an invalid checksum.
> it displayed:
>
> Checksum: ff reserved f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f...
>
>
> any idea? or how to fix it?

Hi,

You question would be better directed to the port-sparc mailing list.   It
sounds like the NVRAM battery has died (a common problem on Sparc machines) - 
the
NetBSD/sparc FAQ has a reference to the Sparc NVRAM FAQ at:

  http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

-- 
Wayne Knowles                   NetBSD/mipsco port maintainer
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