Re: I was in SRM and now, i'm stuck in AlphaBios

[Jean-Francois Gobin <gobin@gobinjf.be>]

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So,

What I had to do is to select the "Digital Unix Console (SRM)", and then 
... quickly power-cycle the machine! Like "off/on" in less than 10 
seconds.

That did the trick. I'm reinstalling back linux (i didn't write down the 
BOOT_PATH, BOOT_FILE and BOOT_OPTIONS from last time. I won't make the 
mistake again).

Thanks for your help,
jF


On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Ulrich Teichert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > I have an AlphaStation 500a that was nicely configured to enter SRM when
> > it started.
> >
> > This morning, I powered it up, to find that a message told me "System time
> > invalid"
>
> I've seen this when the internal buffer battery was empty.
>
> > And since, I'm stuck in AlphaBios, with no other choice than WindowsNT :
> > no network boot and so on.
> >
> > In the CMOS advanced, I chose "OpenVMS SRM" or "Digital UNIX SRM", but
> > nothing works ... It's still getting back to AlphaBIOS.
> [del]
>
> Alphas can react strange when the internal clock is bogus. Try setting
> it in AlphaBIOS (I think there's a menu for it?) and reboot without
> disconnecting power. Consider yourself lucky when you get it to boot
> that way, though. Replacing the battery should cure it, IMHO.
>
> HTH,
> Uli
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