[rescue] do i really need an NVRAM?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:06:11PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 05:49, Scott Newell wrote:
> > >so now, do i really need a new nvram? is there anything besides
> > >annoying rebooting which will follow from the lack of a functioning
> > >battery?
> >
> > Nope.  I've brought several of my machines up multiple times with dead
> > nvrams.  One trick I learned: make a file with the forth commands to set
> > the environment variables, hostid, checksum, and boot settings.  Then when
> > you do cold boot the machine, simply cut-n-paste the saved commands into
> > your terminal window and away you go.
> 
> Small question. How can you cut-and-paste text into an openboot prom?

Serial console to another computer.