odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Richard Smith
Hi! I found that the freebsd system clock just stops when i shutdown or reboot the computer. what is odd is that the clock in my BIOS shows the right time, so it couldn't be that CMOS battery is dead. How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every time i boot into freebsd?

dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Smith
Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0 Release along with Windows XP on my PC. I found that when I set the clock to the correct timedate, next time I boot into FreeBSD it changes and reports the wrong timedate. Both BIOS and Windows reports the time correctly. dmesg shows the following message:

MII without PHY problem with SBC card

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Smith
Dear all, I have a ROCKY-3786EV-RS which is a PICMG single board computer. It has an embedded NIC which is initially detected as fxp0, but then fails to attach with an MII without PHY error. Is this a fixable problem? Is this a bug? Is the LAN interface lost to me? Verbose 'dmesg' up to the

unattended install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not umount disk properly

2004-06-10 Thread Richard Smith
I'm trying to do an unattended install of FreeBSD 5.2.1. If I don't include the 'shutdown' command at the end of the install.cfg file, the install works fine, but I have to manually reboot the machine after the install, which is no good for an unattended install. If I do include 'shutdown', then