How to force booting from a floppy on RT after changing NVRAM?
Dan &
ehrlich at cs.psu.edu
Sat Aug 11 00:58:01 AEST 1990
In article <8207 at ncar.ucar.edu> karl at tobago.cgd.ucar.edu (Karl Sierka) writes:
Karl> I stupidly changed the NVRAM in my RT to boot from who-knows-what. How do
Karl> I get the thing to boot from the diags diskette in the floppy
Karl> drive? Upon power up, or <CTL><ALT><PAUSE>, some numbers flash on
Karl> the LED, then it beeps and hangs with the LED readout saying 29.
Karl> Any clues? Please email and I will summarize.
How about unplugging the battery back up and waiting an hour or so. Then
rerun the maintenance diskette to initialize the NVRAM.
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Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich at cs.psu.edu>/Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176
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