From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  2 Nov 1993 14:25:32 -0500
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu
Subject: can't open nvram?
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I've gotten as far as page 8 of the installation instructions,
running the terminal on a sparc SLC and the fileserver on a
sparc2, and I see the following:

term% auth/wrkey 
Password: 
Confirm password: 
auth/wrkey: can't open nvram
term% 

That sounds bad.  Now what?