Netra bad eeprom chip?

[guitarguy]

I've got this old sparc station 20 that i'm using for a personal firewall and everytime I reboot the machine it forgets the where the boot device is and what the date/time is. I've pulled all the cards out and looked for a battery and haven't found one.

So O wise ones...
1) where is the battery and
2) could the eeprom chip be bad?

Specs for the machine:
Sparc Station 20
64Mb of Ram
(2) 9Gb drives


thanks a bunch!

Gabe

 

[AllenV]

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/801-6189-12.pdf

Look at and after Pg 141.

 

[bpinos]

The problem my be on how you are setting those parameters in the nvram.

You should be using nvalias, NOT devalias.

 

[guitarguy]

Finally got off my butt and dusted the box off. Found a great site on fixing a nvram with a dead battery

http://www.bhargavaz.net/nvram/nvram.html

After a couple of attempts the nvram is now working again. Best of all, saved $20 and learned something in the process.