CMOS PROBLEM

Just want to know how to enter cmos in Ultra 10?
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Hi ,
The equivalent of cmos in Sun machines is e-prom. You can set various parameters of the prom and the nvram from the Open Boot Prompt(OBP).
When the machine starts to boot and after it does the memory check if you press the keys "stop" and "a" simultaneously, it breaks the booting process and comes to the OBP prompt. It looks like:
ok >
You can set the different parameters here. To see the list of different parameters and their values use the following command:
ok >printenv
To have more info. on this please refer the OBP reference manual at http://docs.sun.com
Hope that helps
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