This was also essential to get the system ID set correctly:
There are a few good docs from Sun directly that are also pretty useful for navigating OpenBoot like this one:
Hope that helps! I’m trying to get Solaris 2.6 or 2.7 running on mine with OpenWindows GUI on a BlueSCSI v2.
Benjamin Krein
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On Oct 10, 2024, at 5:53 PM, Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hello!
Thanks Ethan, excellent advice as usual. Remind me next show, and I'll
try to arrange something special.
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 5:49 PM Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr@757.org> wrote:The NVRAM is probably a Dallas module that might go bad? There are ways toget replacement (Glitch) and reprogram in some stuff to make it go. Youmight be able to program it while it's on and just not power cycle it aswell to get it going.Also, my Sun-foo is super rusty but there is a way to turn off extendeddiagnostics in the openboot thing so that it skips a lot of the checks andboots faster.- EthanOn Thu, 10 Oct 2024, Gregg Levine via vcf-midatlantic wrote:Hello!I own of those rigs. Now the problem: Can anyone on the list tell mewhy a system would find itself stuck probing the keyboard, when itruns headless? And how to get things started again.It follows that the unit who was last running, call it seven yearsago, and when I first started it up again, the thing complained aboutthe NVRAM and the next problem was a complaint of it being the systemcalls itself unknown.-----Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com"This signature was present when the impossible happened 23 years ago, twice."