At 07:36 PM 3/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
Sounds like the battery on the chip is weak and is lasting through only
short reboots.
Bill
...and in that case, it is imperative that you try to recover the info
on the chip before it dies completely. Type 'n' to enter the forth
mode, and type
ok .idprom
Write down everything that is dumped to the screen; you'll need it.
Note the spaces between the zeros; a string of zeroed bytes will
be output as "0 0 0", not "00 00 00"; in other words,
"0e fe 0 f" is "0e fe 00 0f", not "0e fe 0f".
It is always good advice to save this info from any Sun machine
before the NVRAM dies.
Carlos.