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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard |
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> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is |
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> set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init |
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> system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in |
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> the future. |
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> Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when |
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> that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which |
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> component in th init process is failing. |
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> Going into the BIOS setup and setting the time ahead a minute or two |
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> will allow the system to start up normally. |
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> Is there any way to disable this "feature"? |
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One other thing no one mentioned, afaict. Check your kernel for RTC (Real Time |
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Clock). The RTC is used to initialize the software clock at bootup. |
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You'll probably need RTC_DRV_CMOS. |
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