From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 16 20: 5:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3CE14DDB for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA62452; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:35:12 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:35:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Newton Cc: bsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu, heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <19990917123512.A55065@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org>; from Mark Newton on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:28:32PM +0930 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 14 September 1999 at 21:28:32 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > 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 :-) Thanks, that did the trick. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message