Re: Steps to take after updating the Boot ROM?

[Adrian Christiansen <adrian.christiansen%gmail.com@localhost>]

last-hardware-update was and is actually blank. I remember that the
MAC-address, password (yeah, that was fun!) and of-course
hardware-revision was set to garbage. Can't remember if there were
more of them. Most of the values must have been set to defaults when
the nvram checksum failed.

good idea to put the battery replace date in hardware-revision!, have
to do that too.

Cheers!,
Adrian.

2015-09-27 19:13 GMT+02:00 Georg Brein <georg.brein%unibas.ch@localhost>:
> On my SparcStation 2 I can set "hardware-revision" to any string
> value (max. 15 characters, OpenBoot truncates longer values)
> I fancy:
>
>    ok printenv hardware-revision
>    hardware-revision     08Sep99                        <no default>
>    ok setenv hardware-revision blubb
>    ok printenv hardware-revision
>    hardware-revision     blubb                          <no default>
>    ok
>
> ("08Sept99" is in fact the date I replaced the dead NVRAM; as
> far as I remember the variable contained random garbage after
> replacing the chip, reprogramming the vital bits and issuing
> "set-defaults"; this makes sense, as there is no default
> "set-defaults" could revert to).
>
> AFAIK the value of "hardware-revision" is tourist information
> only, so you can set it to any string you like.
>
> BTW the same holds for the following variable "last-hardware-update"
> which I guess on your system will contain garbage as well.
>
> Georg Brein
>
> Am 27.09.2015 um 18:27 schrieb Adrian Christiansen:
>
> [...]
>> Then it prints a special character that locks the terminal, so I don't
>> know what comes next.
>>
>> Now I wonder how I can set the hardware-revision to something that
>> doesn't lock my terminal.
>>
>> I have replaced the battery of the NVRAM so it should be fine. It was
>> flat when I got it, and it remembers that disk0:0 is the boot device
>> (which is odd, since id 3 is default).
> [...]
>