PROM Problem - Help!

From: Nix (suse@nix.hispeed.com)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 23:27:31 PST

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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:27:31 +1100
From: Nix <suse@nix.hispeed.com>
Subject: PROM Problem - Help!

    Hi Guys,

    I was just given a Sparc 2 and am trying to get it to work with SuSE
    7.1 beta.

    This is what I see when I boot up.

    SPARCstation 2, Type 4 Keyboard
    ROM Rev. 2.4.1, 96MB Memory installed, Serial #16777215
    Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID: ffffffff.

    The IDPROM contents are invalid

    I then issue:
    boot /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@6,0
    SILO
    boot:
    Uncompressing image...
    Loading initial ramdisk....
    IDPROM Unknown format type!
    Program terminated

    However if I boot from the internal disk, I can happily boot up to SunOS
    4 (although I don't have the root password)

    Does anyone know how to fix my new toy?? It has two NICs in it, I'm not sure
    if that makes a difference to the issue at all...

    TIA 

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