Thank you for the extremely lucid explanation. I've applied your
suggested fix and the machine now reboots cleanly. It's a pleasure
to be able to reboot remotely, once again!

On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 03:32:55PM +0100, drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de wrote:
> 
> The problem is probably that the clock code assumes that
> the BIOS stores the century in a certain position in the
> NVRAM. While this is true for most BIOSes, it is not a
> standard (if we speak about standards in PC world...).
> 
> While an unexpected value at startup only leads to
> this warning (but doesn't cause any harm), the current
> century is written to the assumed position in CMOS on
> clock adjustments.
> If IBM has chosen to store some vital data there, the
> BIOS might be confused.
> 
> I'd recommend to take the line with "mc146818_write"
> out of arch/i386/isa/clock.c:resettodr() for now.
> 
> best regards
> Matthias
> 

Thanks!
-- 
Michael Santos
msantos2@home.com