[commodorejohn]

Power-on is actually a discrete button on the little PS/2 converter box I have (I had the damnedest time actually realizing that until I looked up the pinout for the Sun keyboard and realized it's actually its own separate line. Nice of them to not give the Ultra II any way of booting without it!) I haven't actually tried inserting the NVRAM while it's on, since I couldn't get it past the POST - can you do that before the OpenBoot prompt comes up?

Part of me thinks I should just leave it running the POST all day, in case it's just taking an oddly long time due to having a large chunk of RAM, but I'm not sure it's even getting to the memory test - it just reports that it's starting POST and then sits there indefinitely. I need to give it another go-round with the NVRAM in just so I can compare the behavior...