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| author | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-06-14 17:38:46 +0000 |
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| committer | wilko <wilko@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-06-14 17:38:46 +0000 |
| commit | 670888f81f1add9282d44fd44d9bd5c4519f1bf5 (patch) | |
| tree | bf6a601ccb691fbd87b56b1457e925ad8cf19f2f /release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 | |
| parent | 3516850b6ce634550c6524f9deda6cd3a30f8c69 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-670888f81f1add9282d44fd44d9bd5c4519f1bf5.zip FreeBSD-src-670888f81f1add9282d44fd44d9bd5c4519f1bf5.tar.gz | |
Empty CMOS batteries can cause agony with your AlphaBIOS versus
SRM selection.
Found out the hard way by: gallatin
Approved by: re (scottl)
Diffstat (limited to 'release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1')
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml index 525403d..f9db9a8 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/alpha/proc-alpha.sgml @@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ boxes are sold on the second hand market. They have little or no trade-in value when they are NT-only from the console firmware perspective. So, be suspicious if the price appears too good.</para> + + <para>In case you have problems making your selection of SRM + 'stick', in other words if the system falls back to AlphaBIOS + after you selected the SRM console, it is time to check if the + battery of your CMOS clock/parameter RAM is empty. If so, + a replacement battery most likely fixes the issue.</para> <para>Known non-SRM machines are:</para> <itemizedlist> |
