From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8426138512 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 117E821C105; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (mail-wi0-f174.google.com [209.85.212.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 672A121C086 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id hq4so4609875wib.13 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:10:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=aV/niZtXrjP6aYMgHzB2oa2zHkqSkFUSQ0NIxOPrTeU=; b=h/MnFc60mxZ6ozqUoRRtGGo0UI5L9irauycq4GbHxW9sla3XEDEFiwTRYoqriQjAK0 CBudCPVGhmtoxbRQ/H9kFUtj5KAz4R6+sj0M9FRPcCM+vtV92FnxQF4J1fCFeN+/ZnaM CuG2iYt0Clf9Cmo3EroCtXq/7Ede45l+NxUj/wkGCRHnt4gp/qg+jrNTm1Llg0wE+h+k PcUsCDHerNP0/QFEMTVRJtBXWgOf4uIk1CG8LeVu8V60cec9JOL0w9BbROR8e51C9owk yKE0X+/EQ0Ci5LqCN7JZguki1bKuHHTDajJWE/UaFYXh1AZLPMeNAFloFAipkeGjc0Z5 lW0w== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.123.105 with SMTP id lz9mr9396908wjb.43.1358439042957; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:10:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.114.138 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:10:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.114.138 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:10:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <780063.19709.bm@smtp112.mail.ird.yahoo.com> References: <20130116175249.GE2656@server> <780063.19709.bm@smtp112.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:10:42 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e011776999ac29604d37e3cb2 X-Archives-Salt: 9787518c-b983-42d1-9209-88cc42c037e5 X-Archives-Hash: 02b2601868a7df16f1a92f14b8ddde36 --089e011776999ac29604d37e3cb2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 So it is Linux' fault, that your mate used crap Hardware? That is great! let us blame it for the weather too. And stubbed toes. Am 16.01.2013 21:43 schrieb "Kevin Chadwick" : > > I have had systems in the past who refused to boot because the > > motherboard time was off, and at first it looked like that was the > > problem again. > > OpenBSD takes the time from the filesystem in that case and boots. I > wish linux did. I had a mate who used to ring me up everytime his mother > in law unplugged the laptop and it was a laptop that's cmos was a pain > to replace. I believe he ended up in 2034 or something after a few > months because I told him the bios key and meant he could avoid > fsck that sometimes gave him various problems =-) > > He was anti slow machines (Vista) and liked linux after being > skeptical. I can't see him trying linux again now :-( > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > > 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work > together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a > universal interface' > > (Doug McIlroy) > _______________________________________________________________________ > > --089e011776999ac29604d37e3cb2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

So it is Linux' fault, that your mate used crap Hardware? That is gr= eat! let us blame it for the weather too. And stubbed toes.

Am 16.01.2013 21:43 schrieb "Kevin Chadwick= " <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>:
> I have had systems in the past who refused to boot because the
> motherboard time was off, and at first it looked like that was the
> problem again.

OpenBSD takes the time from the filesystem in that case and boots. I
wish linux did. I had a mate who used to ring me up everytime his mother in law unplugged the laptop and it was a laptop that's cmos was a pain<= br> to replace. I believe he ended up in 2034 or something after a few
months because I told him the bios key and meant he could avoid
fsck that sometimes gave him various problems =3D-)

He was anti slow machines (Vista) and liked linux after being
skeptical. I can't see him trying linux again now :-(

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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to wor= k
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
universal interface'

(Doug McIlroy)
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