[rescue] SunOS 4.1.1 - Can't set date

[Steve Hatle]

All,

With the help of fellow lister Walter Belgers, I’m getting my 3/80 back 
up and running,

After getting a good framebuffer from Walter, and getting the NVRAM 
programmed (correctly, I hope…) I was able to find a ZuluSCSI image of a 
running 3/80 with SunOS 4.1.1_u1 from a post of VCFED. I downloaded 
that, and put it on a BlueSCSI, and the machine boots up as expected.

The image is supposed to have the Y2K patches applied, and the system 
thinks its date is sometime in February of 2000. The clock keeps time - 
if I leave it unplugged for an hour, come back and start the system 
again, the clock will have advanced an hour.

However, if I try and set the date, it won’t change. Using (doing this 
from memory, but following the man page)

  YYMMDDHHMM

  2605040924

It would come back with

Setting the date to 09:24 May 4 2026

And then show the old date again.

If I use a year prior to 2000 it does the same thing.

Not sure if this is a SunOS quirk, an NVRAM hiccup of some kind, out an 
issue with the image and/or BlueSCSI.

I should say writing stuff to the file system works OK, which makes me 
think it’s an NVRAM related thing, maybe.

Does this ring any bells with anyone?

My PROM level is 3.0, which seemingly precludes any chance of CD 
installation, though I have the CD. Tape is out of the question, unless 
someone has the tapes and the working drive they want to part with 🙂 I 
can try and put together a SCSI disk with the mini root and and install 
stuff, I guess, but that will be a project for the future.

Thanks for any advice - I’m pretty excited the thing is working at all - 
this is an annoyance at this point, but if I want to do more with the 
machine, I’m going to want to figure it out, and do a more comprehensive 
install.
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