[SPARCbook] Help!

[glb at xenon22.freeserve.co.uk]

I have managed to boot into a single user mode by doing 3 0 vmunix -sw.  I then ran the date program from /usr/5bin.  This only seemed to have a 2 digit year field, I could set it to December 31st 1999, and watch it tick over to 2000, but the the Sparcbook would not boot again.  So now I've set it to some year in the 80's and it boots up fine, apart from now complaining about a "preposterous date in the filesystem".  Looks like it's not going to accept the current date.

Geoff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nicewonger" <twmaster at twmaster.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 03:33 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Help!


> on 4/17/02 4:33 AM, glb at xenon22.freeserve.co.uk at
> glb at xenon22.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
>
> > I recently received a Tadpole Sparcbook 2, with some version of Solaris
> > installed on it.  It no longer boots up, stopping with a message along
the
> > lines of "TOD clock not initialized check time/date".  I was wondering
if it's
> > possible to re-install it and what operating systems are compatible with
a
> > Sparcbook 2.
> >
> The problem you are having is not software but hardware. The TOD or NVRAM
> chip has died. Reinstalling the software will not fix this.

Is the "TOD clock not initialized check time/date" due to the dead TOD, or
is the the non-booting?  My SB2 gives the same error, but boots.  I managed
to get it to apparently hang immediately after giving the above error by
trying to set the date to the current date, but then I got it to start
booting again by following the directions to recover from a faulty
suspend-to-disk.

I do have a spare TOD clock, I'll try swapping that in to see what happens.
My SB2 doesn't remember the default boot file across reboots either.

>
> Mike N

Bob