11 Jul
2002
11 Jul
'02
4:52 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I'm not sure if this is old enough. I have a
sparc 5 that has stopped booting. I'm not sure
if it is the nvram that has failed or the disk.
There's an issue with dead nvram that plagues a lot of the older
Sparcs, and will stop the autoboot. IIRC, that problem _always_ sets
the MAC address to ffffffffffff, so it should be easy to check.
I do remember that the ELC will still boot, but you have to manually
fix the MAC and boot path on every power-cycle.
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