From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:49:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130117154927.GI2656@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kd6lb4$fe3$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard
> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is
> set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init
> system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in
> the future.
>
> Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when
> that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which
> component in th init process is failing.
>
> Going into the BIOS setup and setting the time ahead a minute or two
> will allow the system to start up normally.
>
> Is there any way to disable this "feature"?
One other thing no one mentioned, afaict. Check your kernel for RTC (Real Time
Clock). The RTC is used to initialize the software clock at bootup.
You'll probably need RTC_DRV_CMOS.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-16 16:43 [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow Grant Edwards
2013-01-16 17:52 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-16 17:55 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-16 18:04 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-16 18:07 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-16 19:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-01-16 20:29 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-16 20:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-17 20:35 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-17 20:45 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-17 22:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-16 20:42 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-01-17 16:10 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-17 17:27 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-01-16 17:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2013-01-17 15:06 ` Stroller
2013-01-17 15:21 ` William Tomlinson
2013-01-17 15:35 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-18 17:31 ` Stroller
2013-01-17 22:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-01-17 23:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-01-18 18:08 ` Grant Edwards
2013-01-18 18:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2013-01-18 22:26 ` Paul Klos
2013-01-18 22:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2013-01-18 22:49 ` Grant Edwards
2013-01-19 5:04 ` William Kenworthy
2013-01-17 15:49 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
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