floppy installation & NVRAM

["John Anderson" <jkanders@alpha.delta.edu>]

I just acquired a SparcStation 2 which needs a new NVRAM chip.  Would a
bad chip interfere with the computer booting from a floppy?  I prepared a
boot floppy (for Sparc) from an Intel based machine and it displays the
following message on the screen:

boot:
Uncompressing image...
IDPROM: Unknown format type!
Program terminated
ok

Is this normal considering the circumstance?

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