I've commented out the runcmd line, then even commented every part of the
clock code.  No luck.

Did 8.1 do this as well?  8.1 reboots just fine, no CMOS errors.

Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error


> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joseph Stegner wrote:
>
> > Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember:
> >
> > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the
> > 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and
> > the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will
> > hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens.
> > After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum,
> > default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature.
> > Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS.  With Win2k and
> > Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.
>
> It seems there should only be a couple places where Linux would interact
> with the PC BIOS that could possibly cause a problem:
>
> 1) /dev/nvram is enabled and something is doing something weird. But
> this would be highly unlikely.
>
> 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt (called during shutdown) is causing a problem
> when it syncs the hardware clock. If this is the case you can try
> disabling the sync by commenting out the line and then doing a test
> reboot.
>
>
>
>
>


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