> Interesting. So you still have got the hostid and the MAC address which might > indicate, that the contents are not completely lost yet. Maybe just a few > bits flipped leading to a wrong checksum (and the diag-switch? being set to > true, leading to loooong POST times)?
Maybe, but it also says "Setting NVRAM parameters to default values." which suggests it has default values stored somewhere to set NVRAM to. I don't know much about these systems' boot process, however. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- It's bad luck to be suspicious. -- Andrew W. Mathis ------------------------