Sun Microsystems Solaris 7 11/99 Hardware Platform Manual page 108

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c. For the nvramrc configuration variable refer to
configuration variable to the customized settings. For additional information on
the NVRAM configuration variables, refer to the OpenBoot 3.x Command
Reference Manual.
TABLE 5-4
Variable Name
output-device
input-device
ttyb-mode
ttya-mode
boot-command
auto-boot?
diag-switch?
diag-device
diag-file
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Solaris 7 11/99 Sun Hardware Platform Guide • November 1999
Restoring Customized Settings
Default Value
Description
If output-device is not set to the default value before the
screen
flash PROM update, then it is possible that the output device
may be other than what you anticipate.
If input-device is not set to the default value before the flash
keyboard
PROM update, then it is possible that the input device may be
other than what you anticipate.
If you are running anything from the serial ports A or B with
9600,8,n,1,-
port settings other than what is default (baud rate, number of
bits, parity, number of stop bits, handshake), then those
communications lines may not function after the flash PROM
update.
If you are running anything from the serial ports A or B with
9600,8,n,1,-
port settings other than what is default (baud rate, number of
bits, parity, number of stop bits, handshake), then those
communications lines may not function after the flash PROM
update.
If there are any custom flags to boot, then the system may not
boot
boot as anticipated after the flash PROM update.
The system may attempt to autoboot after the first reset or
true
power cycle following the flash PROM update. With auto-
boot? set to false, the system will not autoboot.
After you reboot or power cycle the system after the flash
true
PROM update, the diag-switch? may be set to true. With
diag-switch? set to true, diagnostics will be run at boot up.
Also, the system may attempt to boot from a different device
than was booted prior to the flash PROM update.
If you had diag-switch? set to true before the update then
disk
this is the device that would probably have been booted. This
device might not be the boot device after the flash PROM
update.
Empty string
If you were booting a customized kernel file before the update,
and diag-switch? was set to true after the flash PROM
update, the customized kernel file might not be booted after the
flash PROM update.
for how to restore the
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