On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:11 +0100, Sebastian Flothow wrote: > Regarding hardware and the CMOS battery: The kernel has a time counter > which is initialized from the CMOS battery during boot, and written > back to the CMOS clock during shutdown. While the system is runnning, > another timer generates periodic interrupts, which are used to > increment the kernel's time counter. In other words, an empty CMOS > battery should affect your system only while it is down.
I can verify this. The battery of my MB is completely dead. Everytime I boot my computer I have to redo all the bios settings. Once my gentoo system is booted though, the time remains correct the whole time it is on. john -- [email protected] mailing list
