On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:14 PM <ethan at 757.org> wrote:
Since you said QEMU, you are emulating this? If on the
real hardware, is
the NVRAM memory dead? Looks like it doesn't know what kind of hardware it
is. Real hardware will loose nvram battery and need to
be replaced and
reprogrammed, or you can file it down and jumper a battery into it.
I was hoping to just emulate it for now to avoid potentially bad hardware,
but seems like I need to use the real hardware to avoid potentially bad
software! :)
The NVRAM is totally dead; I've been reloading the IDPROM contents each
time. I've already ordered replacement NVRAMs from China; we'll see how
they do. Otherwise, I'll be going with the filing/coin cell trick.
There is also probably a bunch of environment variables in the NVRAM as to
the CD-ROM SCSI path and OS scsi path and stuff on the
Sun. It's been a
long time since Sun boxes for me, so unfortuantely I've forgotten a lot of
it. But if it's all reset or non-existant it could be a source of issues
if my memory is right (It definitely is on SGI hardware.)
Not sure; but, I can say, I've got SunOS 4.1.3 finally installed, and am
now looking at a sparse SunView desktop.
Trying to build MazeWar results in:
ld: Undefined symbol
___bb_init_func
DREG_SEG
*** Error code 2
Not sure yet what to look for, but the source does say it was tested on
SunOS 3.1 and 3.4. So, I am trying to compile it on something a bit later.
Thanks,
Kyle