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Stardate: 20230708.0230
Location: The Lab
Input Device: Dell 7202
Audio: PC fan, some electronic music compilation
Visual: Messy lab :/
Emotional: frustrated, obsessed.
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The Ultra 10 has been re-assembled sans floppy drive. The case is
still off and I have a DVD drive unmounted for the installation. I
found a 10GB IDE drive in my stash. I think the original drive was
9GB or something. Only thing on it was a slackware install from
2004, which I plan on wiping and installing...something? The drive
tried to boot on the laptop I used to check the drive via USB IDE
cable. I forgot to disconnect the drive before rebooting the laptop.
LInux LOader loaded, started boot sequence, then kernel panic.
Unfortunately, I found out that the NVRAM is toast. The IDPROM
contents are invalid. Basically, the battery embedded in the NVRAM
chip is dead and needs to be replaced. Checked online and found a
workaround for the NVRAM [1]. The replacement NVRAM is out of stock
at most places I checked and won't be back in stock until October.
I also found a hardware hacky, ghetto engineering way of dealing with
the embedded battery.[2] This might be an option as well...for after
the occ.
Much of the night/morning was spent messing with the OK prompt and
trying to get the DVD drive to boot. I had old copies of Solaris 10,
Debian 3, and FreeBSD 5 for Sparc64 burnt to optical media from back
in the day. No dice. I even downloaded the latest OpenBSD ISO and
burned it to a CD on a different machine...still no dice. Unsure if
it's the drive or the media. The drive shows up when doing a
printenv.
STARDATE: 20230708.2211
In my quest to search for other IDE CD-ROM drives to test, I found
an old hard drive that was previously used on the Ultra 10. The drive
is 123.5 GB and still booted. I forgot how slow the Ultra 10 takes
to boot. The drive had an installation of Solaris 10 that I had
installed in 2005.
[1] How-To: workaround when your Sun Ultra-5/10 NVRAM no longer works
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