Hi all
Thanks to
Jim Belonis
Joe Fletcher
Dr Tom Blinn
for their replies.
Consensus is that we had a power failure at some point over the festive
period and the battery for the NVRAM failed, hence everything got set back
to defaults.
I am going to check this tonight but it sounds convincing enough to me
Thanks again
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>Hello All,
>
>Merry everything, hope it all went as smoothly as it did here....with one
exception
>
>One of our machines (AS2100 / 4.0E PK1 / Firmware 5.3) was shut down to
>chevrons on Dec 31, left powered on, and booted again on Jan 2nd.
>
>After several problems with the boot I checked the values of various
console >settings and found that the following has changed :
>
>ewa0_mode changed from AUI to FAST
>bootdef_dev changed from dra0.0.0.0.1001.0 to (blank)
>boot_osflags changed from A to 0
>
>I have reset them all correctly now and performed a couple of reboots to
make ?>sure that they stay.
>
>Has anyone had anything similar? We have similar machines that have
produced >no problems.
>
Stuart Hartley
Jewson IT
stuart.hartley_at_jewson.co.uk
Received on Thu Jan 06 2000 - 07:02:45 NZDT