Re: floppy installation & NVRAM
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:43:33PM -0400, John Anderson wrote:
> 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:
Hmm, I don't know about a floppy, but I've net-booted a Sparc that had a
bad NVRAM chip. This was after setting the hostid and MAC address
following the instructions at
<http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html>.
Check eBay, I've gotten NVRAM chips for ~$15-25 on there before.
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