Re: Great news - I was able to boot 5.8 from a CDROM

> Some questions:
> 
> 1.  I'm assuming the "preposterous clock chip time" can be managed in the
> SRM console so I'll exercise my Google-fu to figure that out.

It should be nothing to worry about. The installer has noticed that the
clock is in the future, compared to its internal filesystem timestamp,
which is to be expected since the installation media were built some
time ago.

> 2.  Is the "nvram corrupt" something I need to be concerned about?  If so,
> what should I do here?  Is that a hardware issue or can I re-initialize it
> somehow?

This is harmless. The NVRAM storing configuration information for the
QLogic SCSI controller is optional. The driver only notices by reading
data with an incorrect checksum, and mentions it.

> 3.  Anything I should be concerned about with the "stray irq 3" message?

No. Most alpha systems cause a couple stray interrupts for the serial
ports while booting multiuser, and none afterwards.