Hi,
Just today, I fire up my nextstation and it boot perfectly as usual. Then I decided it was time to clean the inside a bit. So I opened the case clean everything etc. Then I notice the battery. Since my nextstation is not hold the time correctly for many years, I decided to remove the battery. And try to find a equivalent some day.
Bad idea. When I tried to boot again, the computer was dead. It would not react at all to the power button. I told myself it must be the missing battery...
It was. Replacing the battery allowed me to boot again.
But now instead of the verbose boot I had since many years, the computer is back to the simple boot screen with animation. And as soon as the "testing system" is done, it is replace with "Loading from network" with an animation of data going through a network cable.
It looks like the computer is trying to netboot. Nothing will make it boot from the hard drive. (I tried all possible key combination) The Only thing I am able to do is to exit to the rom monitor. From there even if I ask the computer to boot from disk (With 'b' alone or 'b en0') the computer would write:
boot command : en
boot en(0,0,0)
Requesting BOOTP information[boot]
and hang there forever.
It looks like removing the battery IS a bad idea.
What can I do to be able to re-boot from HD again.
Thank you in advance.
François
How silly I am. The command to boot from HD is "bsd", not "ben". The computer boots ok from HD now if I issue a bsd command in the rom monitor. But after power up it always try to boot from network.
How do I change the default boot device ?
Regards
Hi François,
you can use the p command to configure the default settings. As long as the battery is somehow fine, the slab will remember your settings.
Here you will find more information:
http://bigfoot.morphos-team.net/misc/rom-monitor-faq.txtRegarding batteries: I replaced mine this year with "Panasonic Lithium Batterie BR-2/3A 3,0Volt 1200mAh". I found those on Amazon some months ago, currently I could not see them available though.
Cheers
Sven