On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 06:40:45PM -0400, Owen B. Mehegan wrote: > When I first got my Sparc IPX and booted it up, it told me that the NVRAM > was dead, etc. I've dealt with this before, so I bought a new NVRAM chip > from Mouser Electronics. The only problem was, once I installed the new chip > and reprogrammed it, the system still didn't boot properly. When I turn it > on, it stops and says that the POST failed, and I should replace the NVRAM. > It also only checks 1M of RAM, although there is 64 in the system. If I tell > the system to boot from the OpenBoot prompt, it works fine after that, but > will never automatically boot the OS. > check your eeprom settings for diag-switch (should be no) and auto-boot (should be yes). If you can email values for all of them, that'd be useful to compare. Dave -- - Dave Baker : dave@dsb3.com : dave@devbrain.com : http://dsb3.com/ - GnuPG: 1024D/D7BCA55D / 09CD D148 57DE 711E 6708 B772 0DD4 51D5 D7BC A55D
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