>I created a 3.99 install kernel for an IQ80321 based board and can manage
> to get all the way through the kernel load where it halts after "WARNING:
> CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"  Granted I get a lot of errors from the SCSI
> controller, should probably disable the driver.

I'm guessing the board you're using has no battery backed real time clock. 
This is the kernels way of reminding you that the systems notion of 
time-of-day has not been initialized from any dedicated RTC hardware on the 
board.

//Jesse Off