Depending on the OS, there was a ctrl-c to bypass that, but your version may be too old. The other option is just let is charge overnight and see. Worse case, pull the NVRAM and find compatible batteries.
Share and enjoy!
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Longo [mailto:gloomtin@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:37 PM To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Trouble booting an F740
An F740 that has been powered off for over a year has some data I would like to recover. The system boots, but complains about low nvram batteries, and halts. Is there a way I can bypass this shutdown to copy some things off?
Fri Sep 9 16:30:53 EDT [mgr.boot.reason_ok:notice]: System rebooted after an internal halt. Fri Sep 9 16:30:53 EDT [kern.shutdown:notice]: System shut down because : "NVRAM Batteries critically low ". Fri Sep 9 16:30:53 EDT [statd:error]: The batteries on the NVRAM board are dangerously low. Replace both batteries immediately! Fri Sep 9 16:30:53 EDT [monitor.nvramLowBatteries:CRITICAL]: NVRAM batteries are dangerously low. Fri Sep 9 16:30:53 EDT [monitor.nvramLowBatteries.notice:notice]: If the NVRAM batteries are dangerously low, the system shuts down automatically every 0 hours to encourage you to replace them. If you reboot the system it will run for another 0 hours before shutting down. (The 0 hour timeout may be increased by altering the "raid.timeout" value using the "options" command.) CIFS local server is running.
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