Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> 
> On 20/03/2017 16:11, Eric Curtin wrote:
>> Yeah "iburst" was all that this needed. It's perfect for my needs at
>> least. Haven't seen anything like that in my dracut scripts either.
>> Similar to Per, I may not be looking for the right thing.
> 
> I can't find it anymore either. Odd.
> 
> So historically we used to have a hack that set the system time to the
> initrd build time if it was bogus:
> 
>https://github.com/openSUSE/mkinitrd/blob/ad190ad24a9f3881afa11c47aecc8625b286d0d4/scripts/boot-start.sh#L210
> 
> That got removed with the transition to dracut and I seem to remember
> that the hack we then added was to take the last mounted time from
> your / file system and apply that as system time. But I agree that I
> can't find any reference to it.

Sounds like a pretty good idea. 

> I'm surprised any of the non-RTC ARM systems boot at all then - ext3
> used to complain really loudly if the last mount time was newer than
> the system time.

AFAICT, my nanopi neo air does have an RTC, but it still comes up with
clock set to 1970 <something> on boot. 



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