KD2IXL
Experienced Member
Hello!
At the VCF East swap meet I picked up a Sparcstation 20.
I was going through to reprogram the MAC into the IDPROM and made a mistake.
On this line made a typo and put "look" instead of loop and got stuck in some sort of LOOK ] prompt. I was unable to leave it no matter how hard I tried and rebooted the computer to escape the stuck prompt, well after that the computer now completely hangs on "The IDPROM contents are invalid."
I tried leaving the computer unplugged over night hoping the battery might die out, but just my luck the NVRAM has retained all it's settings.
When pressing L1+N it clears the NVRAM but not the IDPROM info so that typo remains stuck.
L1 + A does not appear to drop me to openboot as the computer never makes it to the memory check it just hangs.
I do not get a display out of either video port so I have been connecting over the serial console.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix my mistake or did I brick the computer with my error.
At the VCF East swap meet I picked up a Sparcstation 20.
I was going through to reprogram the MAC into the IDPROM and made a mistake.
0 f 0 do i idprom@ xor loop f mkp
On this line made a typo and put "look" instead of loop and got stuck in some sort of LOOK ] prompt. I was unable to leave it no matter how hard I tried and rebooted the computer to escape the stuck prompt, well after that the computer now completely hangs on "The IDPROM contents are invalid."
I tried leaving the computer unplugged over night hoping the battery might die out, but just my luck the NVRAM has retained all it's settings.
When pressing L1+N it clears the NVRAM but not the IDPROM info so that typo remains stuck.
L1 + A does not appear to drop me to openboot as the computer never makes it to the memory check it just hangs.
I do not get a display out of either video port so I have been connecting over the serial console.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix my mistake or did I brick the computer with my error.