On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Maybe the battery is low, and the power cycle caused the idprom (which is
> just a battery-backed ram) to loose its content.

I don't think the battery is bad because all other settings survive a
power-down (but perhaps they are stored in a flash rather than the
battery-backed nvram?).

> > How do I repair this?
>
> See http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

Thanks, I just found that FAQ via google -> sunhelp.org and that site was
excellent!

After following the quick and dirty repair guide in that FAQ the machine
now works perfectly again. :)

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/ali
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