[rescue] Q: Ultra 1 "idprom contents invalid"...

[Lionel Peterson]

Thanks - I'll give it a try a little later and see what comes of it...

Seems odd that the MAC/Serial numbers, etc all seemed fine - I thought when the battery went, the whole thing went (gibberish in the POST)...

Lionel
 
> From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
> Date: 2004/02/22 Sun PM 07:42:26 GMT
> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Q: Ultra 1 "idprom contents invalid"...
> 
> If it persists after a "set-defaults", the NVRAM/IDPROM battery is dead.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:07:57PM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > Powered up an idle Ultra 1-170 (non-e) and while Solaris booted up fine, I got messages about the IDPROM being invalid.