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Old 01-12-2008, 04:58 AM
John L
 
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Default Re: V210 EEPROM issue


"Ian McAlpine" <ian.mcalpine@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:9J6dnZICq_mWKXfb4p2dnAA@brightview.com...
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> The other day I made a small change to the nvramrc of a V210 with
> >>>> 'eeprom' under Solaris. I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong but after
> >>>> I rebooted it, the server threw an error message along the lines of
> >>>> 'Invalid NVRAMRC... reverting to defaults' after the POST (I didn't save
> >>>> the exact message, unfortunately).
> >>>> The server booted with it's default eeprom values just fine but now I
> >>>> find I can't make any changes... any value I change from OBP or under
> >>>> the OS appears to change, but then reverts to it's default after a
> >>>> reboot. I've tried OBP's set-defaults and bootmode reset_nvram from
> >>>> ALOM, to no avail.
> >>> Set use-nvramrc? to true.
> >> Thanks for a quick reply...
> >>
> >> use-nvramrc? (along with all the other OBP variables) reverts to it's
> >> default value of 'false' if the system is rebooted... thats the issue
> >> I'm having.
> >>

> >
> > First of all, what is the version of the OBP ?
> > And then, could you report the output of the 'printenv' command,
> > please ?
> >

>
> Here you go...
>
> Release 4.18.10 created 2006/03/03 13:59
> OBP 4.18.10 2006/03/03 13:59 Sun Fire V210/V240,Netra 210/240
> OBDIAG 4.18.10 2006/03/03 14:10
> POST 4.18.10 2006/03/03 14:19
>
> {1} ok printenv
> Variable Name Value Default Value
>

<snip/>
> auto-boot-on-error? true false


All are set to the default except auto-boot-on-error?
Have you changed auto-boot-on-error? since rebooting?

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John.


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