Ultra 5 - Asked many times!!
I have searched these forums and found similar issues. I have tried a lot of the suggestions that were in these forums but I am still not making any progress.
Got an Ultra 5 OBP 3.25. The machine boots all the way up and seems ok it just keeps giving the message "IDPROM CONTENTS INVALID". The banner shows the Hostid: 834d3df3 and Ethernet Adress:0:3:ba:4d:3d:f3. This looks good. There are no fff's in the hostid.
At the ok> prompt if I type the following:
ok>nvramrc
It just returns me to the ok> prompt
Also if I type watch-clock the time seems to be updating indicating that the battery is ok.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance!!
Bruce
# 1
nvramrc may not be available... type help at the ok> then help diag
I think... I have been away from Sun boxen for a while (or I am getting too old...) but the help command gives you options to enable the nvramrc command... you just have to find it...
sorry, I don't mess around toooo much with U5s... but try it.
haroldkarl
# 2
Just on the off-chance that some minor OBP setting has become corrupted and thus doesn't quite run correctly ...
Do you have any custom device paths ?
... any custom OBP settings for video resolution ?
any metadevices for a mirrored second disk crammed into the chassis ?
Anything you might want to save and re-create after the prom is cleared ?
(If yes, then copy them to pen-and-paper.)
Then do:
<b> OK set-defaults
OK reset-all</b>
That will clear most everything back to factory defaults and reboot the system.
Any different behavior afterwards?
# 4
Hmmmm ...
Well, I just attempted a generic search of <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com" target="_blank">Sunsolve</a>, using "<i>idprom contents</i>" as the keywords.
Results showed a number of Spectrum-only documents, mostly bug reports, but ...
The latest OBP patch ReadMe file seems to include a bug-fix for that syndrome.There were perhaps a half-dozen different OBP patch updates among the search results.
Hmmm...all the same glitch, fixed with their latest patches ?
The Ultra-5/Ultra-10 OBP patch is # 106121
It's a free download from Sunsolve.
Perhaps try to update your systemboard firmware, since it is a tiny bit down-rev ?
