On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Kolbj??rn Barmen wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Riccardo wrote:
> 
> > I don't know "how", but with 2.2 kernels I always had a correct date 
> > at boot without any tricks. It is true though that with high CPU load 
> > we had clockskew and that we didn't save back the date and hourtime to 
> > the clock, thus any clock setting needed to be done from the mac side. 
> > A compromoise, but better than the current situation.
> 
> The clockproblem is something I stumble upon every now and then on 
> various machinees - I really wish there was a kernel parameter where one 
> could set a date string, then the bootloader could pass it on.

It isn't a problem if you disable the time-stamp triggered fsck and set 
the clock from the network (rdate or ntp).

Finn

> Currently i use a /.timestamp file that I read from init=/sbin/init.noclock;
> 
> ---
> firda ~ # cat  /sbin/init.noclock
> #! /bin/bash
> if test $(/bin/date +%Y) -lt 2008 ; then
>         /bin/date -s "1970-01-01 + $(($(/bin/stat -c %X /.timestamp) +3600)) 
> seconds"
> fi
> exec /sbin/init
> ---
> 
> I make sure the .timestamp is touched regularly and on shutdown.
> 
> 
> This trick I now use on quadra910, an old acer laptop, gumstix ... :P
> 
> -- kolla
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in
> the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> 

Reply via email to