• Sun Blade 100 NVRAM/IDPROM content trouble

    From TheCzar1020@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 29 19:03:44 2020
    Hello all,

    Recently I booted up and old SB100 just to see what as going on and I got a prompt about NVRAM U13. As most people find, you have to get a new NVRAM chip or cannibalize your NVRAM chip and add a battery. I chose the second part as I have a soldering kit
    and a Dremel. I then booted up my SB100 to find that my operation had worked but my IDPROM contents are still invalid. I have tried a lot of other guides such as https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-219-post-10157.html#pid10157, https://it.toolbox.com/
    question/invalid-content-in-idprom-031102, https://github.com/MrSparc/idprom-repair/blob/master/Makefile, and others but I have yet to find a solution. Here is my machine's output on boot and I only took out the serial number:

    (SUN LOGO) Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-11e), Keyboard Present
    OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #XXXXXXXX
    Ethernet address 0:3:ba:18:69:40, Host ID: 83188869.

    The IDPROM contents are invalid

    Aborting auto-boot sequence.
    ok

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  • From TheCzar1020@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 29 19:41:18 2020
    On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 8:03:48 PM UTC-6, TheCzar1020 wrote:
    Hello all,

    Recently I booted up and old SB100 just to see what as going on and I got a prompt about NVRAM U13. As most people find, you have to get a new NVRAM chip or cannibalize your NVRAM chip and add a battery. I chose the second part as I have a soldering
    kit and a Dremel. I then booted up my SB100 to find that my operation had worked but my IDPROM contents are still invalid. I have tried a lot of other guides such as https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-219-post-10157.html#pid10157, https://it.toolbox.com/
    question/invalid-content-in-idprom-031102, https://github.com/MrSparc/idprom-repair/blob/master/Makefile, and others but I have yet to find a solution. Here is my machine's output on boot and I only took out the serial number:

    (SUN LOGO) Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-11e), Keyboard Present
    OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #XXXXXXXX
    Ethernet address 0:3:ba:18:69:40, Host ID: 83188869.

    The IDPROM contents are invalid

    Aborting auto-boot sequence.
    ok

    Just a quick update, on my NVRAM chip there was a sticker that housed the correct ethernet address, however, finding the host id will still be a problem.

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  • From Chris@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 30 18:34:48 2020
    On 04/30/20 03:41, TheCzar1020 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 8:03:48 PM UTC-6, TheCzar1020 wrote:
    Hello all,

    Recently I booted up and old SB100 just to see what as going on and I got a prompt about NVRAM U13. As most people find, you have to get a new NVRAM chip or cannibalize your NVRAM chip and add a battery. I chose the second part as I have a soldering
    kit and a Dremel. I then booted up my SB100 to find that my operation had worked but my IDPROM contents are still invalid. I have tried a lot of other guides such as https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-219-post-10157.html#pid10157, https://it.toolbox.com/
    question/invalid-content-in-idprom-031102, https://github.com/MrSparc/idprom-repair/blob/master/Makefile, and others but I have yet to find a solution. Here is my machine's output on boot and I only took out the serial number:

    (SUN LOGO) Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-11e), Keyboard Present
    OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #XXXXXXXX
    Ethernet address 0:3:ba:18:69:40, Host ID: 83188869.

    The IDPROM contents are invalid

    Aborting auto-boot sequence.
    ok

    Just a quick update, on my NVRAM chip there was a sticker that housed the correct ethernet address, however, finding the host id will still be a problem.

    Have you done a set-defaults, then reset-all, (or similar) at the obp
    prompt ?. Host id is not that important, but you can enter the mac
    address from obp. The first three hx bytes from Sun, then just think
    up something for the remainder that doesn't conflict with anything
    else on the subnet. There's a howto o the net to enter the mac address, calculate the c/sum ad save to nvprom...

    Regards,

    Chris

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  • From Tony Nicholson@21:1/5 to Chris on Sun May 3 16:13:41 2020
    On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 3:34:54 AM UTC+10, Chris wrote:
    On 04/30/20 03:41, TheCzar1020 wrote:
    On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 8:03:48 PM UTC-6, TheCzar1020 wrote:
    Hello all,

    Recently I booted up and old SB100 just to see what as going on and I got a prompt about NVRAM U13. As most people find, you have to get a new NVRAM chip or cannibalize your NVRAM chip and add a battery. I chose the second part as I have a soldering
    kit and a Dremel. I then booted up my SB100 to find that my operation had worked but my IDPROM contents are still invalid. I have tried a lot of other guides such as https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-219-post-10157.html#pid10157, https://it.toolbox.com/
    question/invalid-content-in-idprom-031102, https://github.com/MrSparc/idprom-repair/blob/master/Makefile, and others but I have yet to find a solution. Here is my machine's output on boot and I only took out the serial number:

    (SUN LOGO) Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC-11e), Keyboard Present
    OpenBoot 4.0, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #XXXXXXXX
    Ethernet address 0:3:ba:18:69:40, Host ID: 83188869.

    The IDPROM contents are invalid

    Aborting auto-boot sequence.
    ok

    Just a quick update, on my NVRAM chip there was a sticker that housed the correct ethernet address, however, finding the host id will still be a problem.

    Have you done a set-defaults, then reset-all, (or similar) at the obp
    prompt ?. Host id is not that important, but you can enter the mac
    address from obp. The first three hx bytes from Sun, then just think
    up something for the remainder that doesn't conflict with anything
    else on the subnet. There's a howto o the net to enter the mac address, calculate the c/sum ad save to nvprom...

    Regards,

    Chris

    I didn't see the original posting (via Google groups) - just this reply.

    I went through this when I replaced my Sun Blade 100 NVRAM chip (and
    posted the details here -

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.unix.solaris/XY0yoiyFaTc

    If you haven't stored your host ID anywhere, then you can recontruct
    one from the Ethernet MAC address. My system's host ID is 83 followed
    by the last 6 hexadecimal digits of the system's MAC address (I did
    have it saved in a file I'd saved the output of "prtconf -vp" too).

    To verify your old Ethernet address you could go hunting in the
    various /var/adm/messages files using

    grep -i ethernet /var/adm/messages*

    e.g. Mine is 830957d0 corresponding to the mac address 0:3:ba:9:57:d0

    Tony

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