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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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