Firstly, the date. When checked from the srm console the date is correct, however from debian..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date
Sun Mar 29 11:29:11 EST 2065
^^^?--------------------^^^^????
does anyone have any ideas other than forcing the date back 20yrs and a day?
Only ever seen this when the date was set in ARC and then the boot console was swapped back to SRM. By the way, none of my Alphas exibit this problem (two multia's, a PC64 and a PWS-500au). Try setting the date in linux and then use systohc(?) to set the hw claock.
Also, at boot, just after activating the swap partition, i get the following scsi error:
scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 0a 40 c6 00 00 26 00
Info fld=0xa40e2, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error
This seems not to affect anything, but i have not yet done anything that is to disk-thrashing so am unsure how much i should be worrying...
Dunno about that one ....
And finally, the petty question... Is there anyway of shortening the keystrokes to boot into debian? I have set the options from the srm console, so that a simple >>>>boot will boot the harddrive, but then i get an aboot> prompt to pick a kernel, and seeing as i have only the one, it seems a bit pointless.
From the SRM prompt (>>>) type:
set auto_action boot
The show command is your friend in SRM.
Cheers, Rob
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