23 Sep
2001
23 Sep
'01
12:10 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 02:55:11PM -0400, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
Yes, it has a Mostek 48T02. I would make a dump of the
NVRAM ASAP. I
didn't get the chance to do this to mine, because mine failed to start at
all, displaying simply "NVBATLOW" on the serial console, and nothing else
afterward.
yes, this looks familiar to me :), another AV 4300 i have here:
~> tip cuaa
connected
NVBATLOW
---
my AV 530 status:
i took PROM away from mainboard, placed it back there and now everything is
working fine. i did one little test and i figured out that it was placed there
wrong side(!). changes are saved after reboot, i do not need to set up
graphics card frequency anymore.
i got disk with DG/UX from another machine (i think it was from AV 4100) and i
managed it to work booting install kernel in single-user mode and recompiling
generic one:
b sd(ncsc(),0)root:/dgux.installer -s
# sysadm...etc.
# uname -a
dgux radiator 5.4R3.00 (RADIATOR) generic AViiON mc88100
so now i have working system and waiting for installation media and tons of
documentation (i have to pick up them from former reseller of DG).
now i just need to find some AT keyboard somewhere ;), but that will not be so
big deal..
I will post a procedure for saving NVRAM contents to
this list this
evening. With luck there will be a few things still left in there, which
could mean the difference between heartache and happiness when you replace
the NVRAM.
I can also give enough information on replacing the NVRAM to get things
mostly running again, though as I mentioned I am still finding problems
with missing or uninitialized data in my NVRAM.
i am still interested in these things so just go on.. :)
regards,
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