sparcstation ipx

[John Abreau]

bill.h at angelfire.com writes:

> on attempt to boot, i get the error <failed to get packet from loopback 
> device> now i can't boot, anyone help me with what's goin on? Or know the
> command to boot the image, says can't find /sbus/le at 1, c00000 (default).
> Thanks

My first guess would be that the battery in the IDPROM ran down; 
unfortunately,
it's built into the chip, so you'd need to replace the chip. I had this 
happen
to several IPC and IPX boxes boxes last November.

www.sunhelp.org has some links to FAQs about it; for instance

    http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html


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