[rescue] SS5/Netra Progress of sorts...

[Andrew Weiss]

Isn't NEXTSTEP 3.3 the last version supporting Sparc?  Or was that 4.0?  The
4.2 I had was Mach 68k or Intel only.

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> On 11 Sep 2014, at 4:20 pm, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi William
>
> The speed of the NVRAM is of no consequence here, you can use any of them,
> whichever is available and the cheapest.
>
> As mentioned before, you can temporarily set the NVRAM values up when at
the
> ok prompt, the Squirrel website has a load on this but essentially you want
to
> do the following at the ok> prompt
>
> 1) Make sure the current checksum is invalid
>
> 80 1 mkp
>
> 2) Setup the values (note machine type on SS5 is 80)
>
> 8 0 20 12 34 56 80123456 mkpl
>
> Then press ctrl-D and ctrl-R (ie hold Ctrl key down and press D and R)
>
> Just the ok> prompt should come back, if you get the Copyright message, you
> did it wrong.
>
> 3) Check it is ok by using command
>
> banner
>
> 4) Then use the command just to make sure they are set
>
> set-defaults
>
> 5) Then reset just to clear it and recheck all setup
>
> reset
>
> Then you can boot the system and it will have correct machine type and
> ethernet address.
>
> Finally as before booting from various disks is no problem, Solaris will
boot
> from whichever disk you set it up on, either external or internal.
>
> Peter
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>
>> On 11 Sep 2014, at 01:14, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> So thanks to the grand munificence of the list, I have a 13w3 to 13w3
>> monitor cable in hand.
>>
>> And I learn that the 20" monitor won't power up (head, meet desk.)
>>
>> So I sigh, hang my terminal off the serial port and there we are. Dead
>> NVRAM but everything else seems to pass. So for giggles I pop in the
>> OpenStep 4.2 installer and "boot cdrom" It does it's thing but when
loading
>> the installer I get a watchdog reset. Hmm. Try again. Same result.
>>
>> Next step, put in my SunOS 4.1.4 disk as the SS5 was on the OK list for
>> that. Boot it and it tries to start but the kernel fails when it tries to
>> load the machine type from NVRAM. Ah! sez I. Possibly what the OpenStep
>> installer was doing in it's opaque way as well.
>>
>> If I am understanding this sequence correctly, all I should need it to
pick
>> up a MT48T08 RTC chip from a vendor (I have digikey up in another tab),
>> install it and reprogram it from the the prompt?
>>
>> I see that Digikey has two types listed: 100PC1 & 150PC1 which I am
>> guessing refers to the speed of the part? Which is needed by a SS5?
>>
>> Oh, that reminds me, if I scrounge another SCA 1 or 2 gb drive, I can have
>> one loaded with OpenStep and one with SunOS and choose which to boot into
>> from the prompt?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> William
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>> like no-one is watching.
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