Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:35:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> 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> In-Reply-To: <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org>; from Mark Newton on Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 09:28:32PM %2B0930 References: <19990914123026.B10106@freebie.lemis.com> <199909141158.VAA02182@atdot.dotat.org>
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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
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