On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:59 AM, RSCL Mumbai <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is your PC RTC set to UTC or "local" time? Most likely you may have >> set the time in your OS to reference the BIOS time as UTC; in which >> case the OS during shutdown will set the BIOS clock system time to UTC >> time. To have the system boot at your "local" time, you will need >> to adjust the "alarm" time in the BIOS to IST - 5:30. >> >> > I setup the alarm at per UTC time. > Still did not boot.
Strange. May be your motherboard has a buggy BIOS; check to see if there is an update and/or contact tech support. > Anything particular about the way to shutdown the server (CentOS) so that it > boots using BIOS ALARM function I have a script that uses /sbin/poweroff to shut down the system when there is no "ESTABLISHED" network connections beteween 00:30 and 07:30 hours. RTC is programmed to boot the system @ 09:00 hours. > Thx BTW, it would be nice to put your name. What is RSCL Mumbai? -- Arun Khan A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
