Just to follow up (the list was weird all weekend), we got the ELC booting and running as a spiffy 1-bpp X terminal. Kind of fun to see the little penguin logo in black and white as the machine boots up. Very speedy at 33 Mhz with 24 MB ram. Takes about 3 minutes to check the ram.
The NVRAM chip is still bad, but we just reprogram it every time we boot. For the record (and if anyone else happens to have an ELC), the command sequence is: n set-defaults setenv diag-switch? false f idprom@ 1 xor f mkp 8 0 20 e3 e4 e5 123456 mkpl boot net Fun, eh? It's interesting how you can change the mac address so simply from the prom prompt. Anyway, fun weekend project. Not terribly useful, but that fun. Michael On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 20:48, Evan McNabb wrote: > Michael Torrie and I are playing with a SparcStation ELC (Sun terminal). We're > having problems doing a net boot, and we are pretty sure that the problem > is a bad nvram chip. We tried taking one out of a Sparc 5 but it was the > wrong size. Does anyone else have one we could borrow/have/steal? > > (or if you could give us any advice on getting it working with a bad nvram chip) > > -Evan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
