Alexander Graf wrote: > > > On 21/03/2017 09:52, Per Jessen wrote: >> 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. > > There's a separate RTC module on sale as far as I can tell, but > nothing built in.
I think I saw that too, but then I noticed these messages : # dmesg | grep rtc [ 6.850912] sun6i-rtc 1f00000.rtc: rtc core: registered rtc-sun6i as rtc0 [ 6.850920] sun6i-rtc 1f00000.rtc: RTC enabled [ 6.960530] sun6i-rtc 1f00000.rtc: setting system clock to 1970-01-01 00:00:13 UTC (13) > You can usually tell quite easily whether you have a working RTC by > searching for a battery on the board. No battery means no working RTC, > as there's nothing that would preserve the time while it's not plugged > in. There is definitely no battery, not enough room :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
