A good references: http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html 1. Setting the HostID and mac address in eprom mac address: 00 80 B6 00 4F 82 hostid: 80084555 machine type: 80 (for LX, 4, 5, Ultra1). To show the contents. .promid or banner Need to write the information into the first few byte in the PROM using mkp. At the OK prompt do this: 1 0 mkp 80 1 mkp 00 2 mkp 80 3 mkp b6 4 mkp 00 5 mkp 4f 6 mkp 82 7 mkp 0 8 mkp 0 9 mkp 0 a mkp 0 b mkp 08 c mkp 45 d mkp 55 e mkp 0 f 0 do i idprom@ xor loop f mkp 2. Set the boot device. Bigdog boot from SCSI address 3 ,or c0t3d0s0 At the ok prompt, do this: setenv boot-device disk3 'printenv' to check 3. booting troubles. On 2013.08, hilodog did not comeback after a reboot. To view consult ouput connect to serial port using 96008N1 or you can use mako-spare+minicom to view serial. Could not send break to get OK prompt. Stuck on waiting for 'ARP/RARP'. Need to connect to a PS/2 Keyboard. Cntl-Break on PS/2 keyboard got me to the OK prompt. Type 'boot disk' at the OK prompt to boot the disk.