Hi all! I recently experienced a problem on a fleet of CentOS 6 boxes with GRUB 0.97 that had a dodgy CMOS battery and the RTC was broken. In this circumstance, the timeout on the GRUB menu never moved because GRUB didn't think any time had passed... So I wrote a fix that monitors both the 18.2Hz PIT (via currticks()) and the RTC (via getrtsecs()) and falls back to PIT if it seems like the RTC is being naughty...
(and no, fixing the CMOS batteries isn't an option here, nor is replacing the motherboards, nor is upgrading to GRUB2 :-/ ) That said, I'd like to contribute that back, but since legacy is no more, I'm not sure where that patch should go. Obviously I can hang on to the patch personally, but if there's someone still maintaining legacy (for even a very casual definition of "maintaining"), I'd love to contribute my little fix. Thought I'd start here before going to the centos folks (though obviously that's an option as well). Thanks! --bj _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
