What is invalid IDprom means ?
Dyip95
I have an old IPC with 2 external drives, tape and CD-Rom. I am trying to
hook everything up together and install Solaris 2.4. It was running Sun
OS4.1.3 before with only 1 external disk drive and a tape drive. So I am
adding 2 new external devices. Hook everything up and the first message I
got on the screen is:
The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.
Then I proceed with b sd(0,6,2) and I got:
invalid format code in IDprom.
What is the problem, hardware setting incorrect ? Cable routing error ?
Incompatible hardware ? (They are all Sun hardware). Please help.
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Mark Henderson
>hook everything up together and install Solaris 2.4. It was running Sun
>OS4.1.3 before with only 1 external disk drive and a tape drive. So I am
>adding 2 new external devices. Hook everything up and the first message I
>got on the screen is:
>
>The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.
>Then I proceed with b sd(0,6,2) and I got:
>invalid format code in IDprom.
There is a battery embedded in the NVRAM chip on your motherboard
(chip with white or yellow barcode label with some alphanumeric goo
under the barcode). This battery has run down. The NVRAM chip stores
your hostid, ethernet address, the time of day, and various
configuration parameters (boot-device, security-mode, etc.)
Fortunately, this is a relatively easy problem to fix. You need to buy
a new NVRAM chip (Mostek M48T02), remove the old one, install the new
one, and program a hostid and ethernet address into the new chip. The
whole procedure takes about five minutes. The new M48T02 will run you
about US$20.
For detailed information grab the following:
ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto/sun-stuff/change-sun-hostid-1.6.1.tar.gz
OR
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/he/henderso/change-sun-hostid-1.6.1.tar.gz
In particular look at the file nvram.info in the tar file.
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ftp://ftp.wimsey.com/pub/crypto/sun-stuff/change-sun-hostid-1.6.1.tar.gz
Richard J. Moore
You should use the ok prompt:
L1-A
Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
>
n
ok> boot cdrom
Solaris 2.4 requires an absolute minimum of 16 Megs of memory.
Hope this helps,
Rick Moore
dyi...@aol.com (Dyip95) wrote:
>
>I have an old IPC with 2 external drives, tape and CD-Rom. I am trying to
>hook everything up together and install Solaris 2.4. It was running Sun
>OS4.1.3 before with only 1 external disk drive and a tape drive. So I am
>adding 2 new external devices. Hook everything up and the first message I
>got on the screen is:
>
>The IDPROM checksum is incorrect.
>
>Then I proceed with b sd(0,6,2) and I got:
>
>invalid format code in IDprom.
>
Doug Hughes
In article <1996Jan9.1...@nosc.mil>, "Richard J. Moore" <moore%pas...@mctssa-gw.usmc.mil> writes:
|> At one point in time, the CD format was changed, and no longer takes (0,6,2).
|> You should use the ok prompt:
|> L1-A
|> Type b (boot), c (continue), or n (new command mode)
|> >
|> n
|> ok> boot cdrom
|>
Warning! This has as much to do with the rev of the PROM in your machine
as anything else. Older sun 4 machines still require b (0,6,2), and boot
cdrom/disk from the OK prompt will give you a blank look.
(especially true on sun3 machines which don't have OK>)
additional info for 2-back poster
4/60 = sparc1
4/65 = sparc1+
4/75 = sparc2
4/25 = ELC
4/40 = IPC
4/50 = IPX
These are all independent of O/S however.
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