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       Stardate: 20230708.0230
       Location: The Lab
       Input Device: Dell 7202
       Audio: PC fan, some electronic music compilation
       Visual: Messy lab :/
       Emotional: frustrated, obsessed.
       
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       The Ultra 10 has been re-assembled sans floppy drive.  The case is 
       still off and I have a DVD drive unmounted for the installation.  I 
       found a 10GB IDE drive in my stash.  I think the original drive was 
       9GB or something.  Only thing on it was a slackware install from 
       2004, which I plan on wiping and installing...something?  The drive  
       tried to boot on the laptop I used to check the drive via USB IDE 
       cable.  I forgot to disconnect the drive before rebooting the laptop.  
       LInux LOader loaded, started boot sequence, then kernel panic.
       
       Unfortunately, I found out that the NVRAM is toast.  The IDPROM 
       contents are invalid.  Basically, the battery embedded in the NVRAM 
       chip is dead and needs to be replaced.  Checked online and found a 
       workaround for the NVRAM [1].  The replacement NVRAM is out of stock 
       at most places I checked and won't be back in stock until October.  
       I also found a hardware hacky, ghetto engineering way of dealing with 
       the embedded battery.[2]  This might be an option as well...for after 
       the occ.
       
       Much of the night/morning was spent messing with the OK prompt and 
       trying to get the DVD drive to boot.  I had old copies of Solaris 10, 
       Debian 3, and FreeBSD 5 for Sparc64 burnt to optical media from back 
       in the day.  No dice.  I even downloaded the latest OpenBSD ISO and 
       burned it to a CD on a different machine...still no dice.  Unsure if 
       it's the drive or the media.  The drive shows up when doing a 
       printenv.  
       
       
       STARDATE: 20230708.2211
       
       In my quest to search for other IDE CD-ROM drives to test, I found 
       an old hard drive that was previously used on the Ultra 10.  The drive 
       is 123.5 GB and still booted.  I forgot how slow the Ultra 10 takes 
       to boot.  The drive had an installation of Solaris 10 that I had 
       installed in 2005.  
       
 (HTM) [1] How-To: workaround when your Sun Ultra-5/10 NVRAM no longer works
       
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