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From: "Ulrich Teichert" <Ulrich.Teichert@gmx.de>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Ultra 2 with nvram problems
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:03:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070802220327.20940@gmx.net> (raw)

Hi,

my ultra-2 with two 300 MHZ CPUs has recently developed this (serial log):
...
ttya initialized
SC Control: EWP:0 IAP:0 FATAL:0 WAKEUP:0 BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1 POR:0 
Incorrect configuration checksum; 
Setting NVRAM parameters to default values.
Setting diag-switch? NVRAM parameter to true
....
Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus (2 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.25, 384 MB memory installed, Serial #16777215.
Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.
...
{0} ok boot disk
Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0  File and args: 
SILO Version 1.4.13
boot: 
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Uncompressing image...
Loaded kernel version 2.6.18
Loading initial ramdisk (4682540 bytes at 0x60800000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...

IDPROM: Warning, unknown format type!
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...
PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 3.25.0 1999/12/03 11:35'
PROMLIB: Root node compatible: 
Linux version 2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@debian.org)
 (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 
13:14:08 UTC 2007
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
...


Etc. Every time I boot up, date is at:

ceteol:~# date
Thu Nov 30 01:06:09 CET 1967

Has anybody seen symptoms like this before? I assume the nvram battery is
empty and replacing it should cure all this, but before I search all ebay
for these precious jewels, I'd like to know if a replacement will get me
anywhere.

Thanks for all responses,
Uli

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-08-02 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-02 22:03 Ulrich Teichert [this message]
2007-08-02 22:07 ` Ultra 2 with nvram problems David Miller
2007-08-03  0:35 ` Chris Newport
2007-08-03 15:06 ` Ulrich Teichert
2007-08-12 18:52 ` Ulrich Teichert

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