Subject: Re: PRAM time does not appear to have been read correctly.
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: USER <oyakata@artcraft.ne.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/08/2001 16:47:06
Hi.

I look at this pages.

http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n18241

and I think run-down PRAM battery.

I buy battery.

thank you.

oyakata
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Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> PRAM is Parameter RAM. It usually Holds the Date / Time and default
> boot-disk settings.
> 
> The error you are getting seems to be that the PRAM is at a date earlier
> than when you installed NetBSD. Is your date sometime around 1957? This is a
> classic sympton of a run-down PRAM battery.
> 
> I would recommend replacing the battery, find the specs on til.apple.com,
> with one from Radio-Shack or the like.
> 
> If it is not dead, try just setting the date correctly in MacOS and
> rebooting.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> matthew