can't open nvram?

[Stefan Axelsson d7stfax@dtek.chalmers.se]

Scott Schwartz writes:
> 
> 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?
> 

I had exactly the same problem, to the rescue came Dave Presotto
(Thanks again Dave). The terminal doesn't ever read the nvram, you have to
boot the cpu-server "/sparc/9sscpu" instead. This will give you some
error messages, but you can ignore them. Then proceed as per the
instructions.

I could mail you the rest of the help we got from Dave Presotto, if
you're interested. There were a few other problems as I remember it.
Mainly dealing with authentication.

Regards,
-- 
Stefan Axelsson,			Chalmers University of Technology,
d7stfax@dtek.chalmers.se		Sweden