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

[Mazzini Alessandro]

"Joukj"  wrote in message news:kdj504$3jf$1 at speranza.aioe.org...

MichaelM wrote:
> 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.
>
> You can force the machines to boot through with another TIMEPROMPTWAIT
> value, but than the system time will be inaccurate (time of last boot
> or of last $SET TIME).
>
> 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.
I see the same on some of my alpha's since 1-JAN-2013.
Definitely one of my XP1000 does it (on the other 2 I have not seen it
yet, but I did not do a power-cycle on those, only a "reset" by pressing
the button).
I see the same on a DPWS500au and a AlphaServer 2000 4/200, but not on
the boot-member of my cluster, a DPWS600au (I even power-cycled this
machine)

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Just tried to doublecheck on a pws500au , and the boot was normal (even if 
maybe
slightly slower than usual). 8.4 on it, with the usual hobbyist patches. No 
cluster
configured at the moment.

What version of openvms are you using on the pws500au ?latest firmware ?

Alessandro