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

Thank you for the response!  I have some additional RAM coming for
this box and a PCI video card.

Can anyone recommend any missing ports for this architecture that are
particularly annoying?  I'd be happy to dig into some of them now and
see what I can make happen.

Thanks,
Bryan

On Nov 7, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote:

>> 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.