Yes, it should, but it _is_ possible to bring the system in such a state,
that you have to remove the battery. It happened twice to me (well, I did
some very strange things...). 

flavio

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Donald Lee [SMTP:donlee_ppc@icompute.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 26, 1999 4:01 PM
> To:	port-macppc@netbsd.org
> Subject:	RE: Zapped pram...
> 
> It should be sufficient to do the command-option-p-r trick.
> You hold these four down while booting, and listen for some
> strange chimes.  (I think you're supposed to wait for at least two)
> the release the keys.
> 
> You'll have to get past OF and be running a MacOS ROM for this
> to work, so you may have to boot the machine from a CD, or a MacOS
> partition
> if this is a B&W and you don't have a handy MacOS partition.
> 
> -dgl-
> 
> >Hi,
> >I encountered the same problem. That happens. You have to remove the
> battery
> >for a while (15 min shall do it), for the nvram to reset. The default
> >setting are quite good after that.
> >
> >best wishes
> >
> >flavio
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From:	Pawel Jaskorzynski [SMTP:pawel@mw.mil.pl]
> >> Sent:	Tuesday, October 26, 1999 9:48 AM
> >> To:	port-macppc@netbsd.org
> >> Subject:	Zapped pram...
> >> 
> >> While messing around in OF my video stopped working so I decided to
> zapp
> >> the pram. Now, video doesn't work and the system doesn't boot. DOes the
> >> install set anything specific in the OF? I mean not the boot-device or
> >> boot-file etc, but f.e. nvramrc ?
> >> Where to find more on OF (I have all 3 Apple Tech Notes mentioned in
> the
> >> FAQ, they don't help)?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanx,
> >> 	Pawel
> 
>