From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Sep 14 10:10:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from sushi.level3.net (gdffw1.Denver1.Level3.net [209.244.1.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A80F1150C8 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:09:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from liam@level3.net) Received: from BUGS (dhcp-10-6-98-131.quantum1.oss.level3.com [10.6.98.131]) by sushi.level3.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA22190; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:03:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <004501befed3$702e2720$8362060a@BUGS> From: "Liam Slusser" To: "Mark Newton" , "Greg Lehey" Cc: , , References: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org> Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:06:06 -0600 Organization: Level3 Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Do you know if this method will work with the newer sun4u? (Like an Ultra 2 or Ultra 10?) liam ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Newton To: Greg Lehey Cc: ; ; Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 5:58 AM Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Anybody know how to restore life to an SS2 whose IDPROM has died? > > Mine doesn't know what it is. Serial number, Ethernet address and > > Host ID are all -1. It does know about its product type, keyboard, > > ROM, and memory size. > > Get yourself to an "ok" prompt, then: > > ok setenv diag-switch? false > ok 0 f mkp > ok 8 0 20 AA BB CC AABBCC mkpl > ^D^R > ok boot > > This will set your ethernet address to 8:0:20:aa:bb:cc and your hostid > to 0xaabbcc. > > Save this away somewhere, because you'll need to type it again every > time you power-cycle the system :-) > > - mark > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org > but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton > ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message