AmigaOne Battery Q.

I have an AmigaOne XE 800 MHz. (For those that don't know.)

The last time I put in a new battery was Jan. 2007, about 1 year, 8 months ago.

I think that I had the original settings in UBoot, so then after that installed the upgrade of AOS4.0 pre-R 4 and new UBoot, which it is at now.

Question is, when I replace the battery, do I have like 20-30 seconds, that if I put the new battery in in time, I do not need to reinstall UBoot?

Heh, also, maybe someone could give me the battery serial no.? (I'm sure it's SOMEWHERE around here. )


I think it's a major disappointment that if someone found an AmigaOne 30 years from now and can't use it, simply because that battery may not exist anymore.

@Atheist

UBoot is in flash memory and needs no power to survive. The battery is a CR2032. I don't think that this type will be disappear - it is used in many devices. And I think you can save your NVRAM settings with prefs/UBoot.

Hi @Flinx
I think you can save your NVRAM settings with prefs/UBoot.
Nope. Use a shell and use OS4:> nvgetvar. I saved mine on a USB drive and printed it out.

I see now that this was your first post! Welcome to an official AmigaOne hangout! Nothing too shocking is going on, or maybe ...

@Atheist

They use it in peecee's too. So should be around for some time i believe.

@Snuffy

Sure you can,

UBoot Prefs - Pull Down Menu - Save Configuration as... - give name and off you go

@Flinx

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True, but the UBoot variables may need resetting after changing the battery.

In one of my A1s, I have implemented the ultimate remedy against that; I soldered two battery holders together in parallel, so I can put in the new battery before removing the old one -- all while having the machine powered down, of course. I'm planning to do the same mod to the other one.

Best regards,

Niels

@Raziel

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I'm not sure that this method saves all the UBoot settings to file? At least it dosen't on my ?A1-C, which I only found out after recently changing the battery.
IMHO the best method is to print the output from nvgetvar as mentioned already?

TrevorD

@TrevorDick

It does, both the files created are exactly the same size,
hence nvgetvar saves it it in a more readable manner.

@Raziel

I saved the variables with UBoot Prefs & tried to load them back in after a battery change a few months ago, no go. A printed copy of nvgetvar saved me a lot of work getting them all put back.