[SunRescue] Converting Classic Xs to Classics

[Harry Regan]

Hmmm.  There is light at the end of the tunnel... Last night I was poking
around in the PROM and NVRAM areas.  I repeated the conversion process-- but
this time doing the "four bytes" first and then patching the machine ID-- the
reverse order of how I had done it before.  It worked!  I booted it from a
Solaris CD and it all came up good.  I installed a small SCSI disk and now it
boots, telling the world it's a Classic!  

To test the "sequence" theory, I patched the NVRAM values in the other Classic
X in the four bytes first, then machine ID order-  and it failed...  So
apparently the "poking" I was doing set some memory context or page value that
is important to the process.  Oh well, more fiddling...

Once we crack this code, we'll take a look at the Xterminal1...

>> Date: 23 Mar 00 06:58:55 EST
>> From: Harry Regan <harry.regan at usa.net>
>> 
>> Has anyone out there *really* done this conversion? Even the FAQ
>author said
>> he didn't have hardware to test it on...
>> 
>
> I also have a ClassicX, as well as an Xterminal1, that I'd like to
> convert from x-terminals. Can the Xterminal1 be converted??? If so, 
> is it a similar process to the ClassicX's? So far, I haven't had 
> time to try the steps outlined in the FAQ for the ClassicX. I'll be
> interested to see how Harry's works out.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Kyle
>
> "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
> - George Patton


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