[Info-vax] Changed Boot behavior on XP1000 since 2013

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<5feb33d2-8018-42bb-a06c-61f749581e4c at a15g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>,
MichaelM <michael.menge at rwe.com> writes: 

> XP1000,  VMS V7.2-1 or V7.3-2, latest Firmware V5.9-1, SYSGEN-
> TIMEPROMPTWAIT=65535 (default), battery ok.
> 
> Since 2013 all machines booting up from "Power off" or after doing
> ">>> INIT" on the boot prompt stop booting and ask for the system time
> DD-MMM-YYYY MM:HH. IF you set the time back to 2012 they boot until
> login normally. All XP1000 boot normally too if power wasn't off or if
> no >>> INIT was given on the boot prompt.
> 
> Only XP1000 are infected, our DS10 and some other alphas boot as
> expected.

My last XP1000 boot was 10-JAN-2013, but no power off.  I might have 
done an INIT and vaguely recall an unexpected time prompt (but I'm not 
sure and/or that could have been on another machine with bad battery and 
power cycle).

> It seems that any time from 2013 on is an invalid time for the
> processors time-of-year clock and this clock becomes important after
> "power off" or >>>INIT.

Does anyone else see this?  Is there a fix?