On Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 9:04 AM Jon Elson via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/9/25 12:59, Miod Vallat via cctalk wrote: > > > > There are no details about the battery in the manual, except that they > > are made of ``the latest generation of Nickel Cadmium batteries'', where > > latest means 1992. > > Ah HAH! That confirms my suspicions from the original > message, that the machine would partially boot once, then > never again until left unpowered for a few weeks. I guessed > that there was a CMOS battery that was rechargeable, and the > several weeks wait allowed that battery to fully discharge. > The issue is the partial boot leaves some corrupted data in > the battery-backed RAM. > Isn't there a command in OpenFirmware to reset that? Or to set things like MAC address that might 'fix' this before the kernel gets a chance to freak out... Warner >
