On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Steven Fines wrote:

> Sun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.1, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
> Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: fcffffff.
> 
> 
> The IDPROM contents are invalid

It would be a good idea to solve this first.
I'm not sure it's the single cause of failure though.

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

Martin