On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:14 PM <[email protected]> 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
