sparc64/108757: cant boot if rtc stuffed, no means of recovery

[Miles Nordin]

>>>>> "ag" == Andrew Grillet <Andrew> writes:

    ag> The boot process fails because the rtc is invalid, and then
    ag> reboots endlessly.(no dump device)

    ag> This needs to be changed so that the user is offered the
    ag> choice of having the rtc zapped to a sane state for subsequent
    ag> resetting after reboot.

possibly there is a way to do this in OpenFirmware.  I don't know
what's wrong with your RTC in particular.  How do you know it's
corrupt?  Did you see an error message?

This is for older Suns, but you could try parts of it:

 http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

I don't think it's a good idea to add architecture-specific user
dialog to the bootup process.  Whatever you want the kernel to
do---ignore the problem, work around the problem, fix the problem, do
nothing differently but print a better error message---it should
always do that thing, not ask questions.
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