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

[MichaelM]

On 21 Jan., 11:24, Joukj <jo... at hrem.nano.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> 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)
> All 6 of machines form a cluster with one boot-member and 5 satelites
> booting form the same system-disk. It is a OpenVM8.4 system with all
> available patches installed.
>
> When I mentioned this to HP-support, they blamed the battery. I have not
> had time to replace them to see if they are right. But I'm still
> wondering why 3 systems failed on this point at the same time (since
> 1-jan-2013).
>
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Even with the lastest V7.3-2 patch (vms732_update-v2500)  the V7.3-2-
XP1000 system asks for a new time value.
It seems to be VMS version independent (our V7.2-1 and V7.3-2 and your
V8.4), but hardware / firmware dependent.
The batteries were the first things we have checked.