[SPARCbook] no boot?

[Matthew Haas]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 Hugo.van.der.Kooij at caiw.nl wrote:
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> > I've not heard of any issues with dead NVRAMs in Sparcbooks, but that
> > doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
> 
> As far I understood they have happened. I know some SUN units have a NVRAM
> with battery that have an estimated expected liffespan of 4 to 5 years.
>

>From what I've experienced, the SPARCbooks do not have an NVRAM battery of
their own-- they use the power of the battery or wall-outlet... somewhere
I heard that if the SPARCbook was without a battery or any source of power
for more than 36 hours all of its configuration data in the NVRAM would be
lost.

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