I think on those platforms, leaving it at the OK prompt, charges the battery. Let the battery charge, and it should boot. Otherwise I think "clear-post-results" at the ok prompt, will let the sucker boot.
Hope that helps,
-Blake
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Tim Longo gloomtin@gmail.com wrote:
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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