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

[DaveG]

On Friday, January 18, 2013 7:47:21 AM UTC-6, 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 was asked for the system time (same as the others here) this morning on an Alpha 4000 after a power down restart.  I did set the date as 22-JAN-2013 and the boot continuded normally.  I thought battery too then stumbled on this thread.

Don't recall this being a problem before 2013 rung in.