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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.

Is there something else I need to look at/set/reset?

Many thanks

Ian

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"Ian McAlpine" <ian.mcalpine@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:MLOdnY4UnKtM83fbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@brightview.c om...
> 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.

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John.

>> 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.

Regards

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On 14 sep, 13:41, Ian McAlpine <ian.mcalp...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Ian McAlpine
> E: ian.mcalp...@yahoo.co.uk

Hi,

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

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frederic.gicquel@gmail.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.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Ian McAlpine
>> E: ian.mcalp...@yahoo.co.uk
>
> Hi,
>
> 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

asr-policy normal normal
test-args
diag-passes 1 1
local-mac-address? true true
fcode-debug? false false
scsi-initiator-id 7 7
oem-logo No default
oem-logo? false false
oem-banner No default
oem-banner? false false
ansi-terminal? true true
screen-#columns 80 80
screen-#rows 34 34
ttyb-rts-dtr-off false false
ttyb-ignore-cd true true
ttya-rts-dtr-off false false
ttya-ignore-cd true true
ttyb-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
output-device ttya ttya
input-device ttya ttya
auto-boot-on-error? true false
error-reset-recovery sync sync
load-base 16384 16384
auto-boot? true true
network-boot-arguments
boot-command boot boot
diag-file
diag-device net net
boot-file
boot-device disk net disk net
use-nvramrc? false false
nvramrc
security-mode none No default
security-password No default
security-#badlogins 0 No default
verbosity normal normal
diag-trigger error-reset power-on-res ... error-reset
power-on-res ...
service-mode? false false
diag-script normal normal
diag-level max max
diag-switch? false false

Thanks

Ian

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"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.

>>>>>> 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?
>

Nope. If I change it it reverts to 'false' after a reboot.

Ian

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