On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:43:33PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I just acquired a SparcStation 2 which needs a new NVRAM chip. Would a > bad chip interfere with the computer booting from a floppy? I prepared a > boot floppy (for Sparc) from an Intel based machine and it displays the > following message on the screen:
Hmm, I don't know about a floppy, but I've net-booted a Sparc that had a bad NVRAM chip. This was after setting the hostid and MAC address following the instructions at <http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html>. Check eBay, I've gotten NVRAM chips for ~$15-25 on there before. -- Bill Jonas | "If you haven't gotten where you're going, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you aren't there yet." --George Carlin http://www.billjonas.com/ | http://www.harrybrowne.org/
