On Thursday, June 16, 1994 at 4:58:00 AM UTC-7, Marc J. Fraioli wrote:
Hi everyone-
We have an SS10 Model 30 here, which, alas, is not on an UPS. There
was a power outage due to a thunderstorm here last night, and the
system bought it. When I got in this morning, it was on, but the
screen was black, and it wouldn't answer ping. So I turned it off,
waited a bit, and turned it back on. It came up with all sorts of
errors I had never seen before, and wouldn't boot. One thing I
noticed is that it said:
Ethernet address: fe:fe:fe:fe:fe:fe, Host ID: fefefefe
Then lower down,
The IDPROM contents are invalid
It would then do some of its normal boot stuff, and eventually get to:
Boot: vmunix
Size: 1515520+460808+215056 bytes
Data Access Exception
ok
I first tried using L1-N as I turned it on, and this gave the desired "resetting NVRAM" message, but it still failed to boot. So, I
tried booting from the Solaris 1.1.1B CD (which is what was installed
on the machine), and got the following:
The IDPROM contents are invalid
... (normal stuff deleted) ...
boot: vmunix
size: 860160+2318280+65032 bytes
Invalid format type (254) in NVRAM
machine type 0xffffffff in NVRAM
panic: No known machine type configured in!
Data Access Exception
ok
Has anyone seen this sort of thing before? Is it possible to fix
it from the PROM monitor, or does it need physical repairs? Any
info much appreciated.
Marc Fraioli
mjf@clark.net
You can actually set most of these things using the openboot prom. It has commands in for setting variables and you can use them to set the nvram. I have had to do this in the distant past.
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