[Sunhelp] SS2 Prom Error

[Paul Khoury - Tech Support]

At 03:05 PM 2/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I have an old Sparcstation 2 that when it boots says The IDPROM Contents
>are Invalid. I get to the PROM prompt and boot to a Linux boot floppy
>and it boots up, but after it uncompresses the boot image I get the
>message IDPROM Unknow format type. It then returns to the PROM prompt.
>Anyone know how to fix this?
>
Sounds like a bad NVRAM.  You probably need to get a new NVRAM and
reprogram it.
Or it might need to be reprogrammed (if you just bought it).

I have yet to find time to reprogram my IPC.