Re: clock error/system unstable now (fwd)

2000-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: If you can revert to your previous linux kernel, do it. The docs are old, there's no real need to recompile your kernel these days. Try searching your kidding..unbelieveablewell..this is good news BUT does it apply to me since

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Lee, what caused this time thing never had before anyone know? Could it be this is an old machine and the battery on the mainboard is flat? (I had this problem once (system crashing and a slow clock). The battery seller tested the battery and it seemed to be ok, but it

Re: clock error/system unstable now (fwd)

2000-07-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: Find a boot disk :) My favorite is tomsrtbt which you can find at http://www.toms.net/rb/. I believe that you can write that to a floppy using rawrite under DOS. You might also be able to use the Red Hat installation CD to boot your system, but I

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-21 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 21-Jul-00 Lee Johnson wrote: Kevin Hancock wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: Your clock is wrong and some things were not compiled? Every time my clock is behind the last compile time I get those errors. Just reset the time to current time and recompile. Works for me.

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: another reply thanks so much.. in as much as i can't get back to desktop will this work?..reset time?..sorry you're talking to newbie more or less anyway reset time huh?..done how? remember i can't get past that command line prompt ( bash)

Re: clock error/system unstable now (fwd)

2000-07-21 Thread Lee Johnson
If you can revert to your previous linux kernel, do it. The docs are old, there's no real need to recompile your kernel these days. Try searching the archives of this list either on deja.com or moongroup.com. Directions for setting up CDRW without recompiling have been posted a couple

clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-20 Thread Lee Johnson
tried to compile in support for cdrw ( ricoh ) and after doing make bzimage i got a weird clock skew error...never seen before.. anyway i'm locked out of linuxsave for getting to base prompt that is.. i can get there just no desktop... I don't recall altering any desktop settings but

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-20 Thread Kevin Hancock
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: Your clock is wrong and some things were not compiled? Every time my clock is behind the last compile time I get those errors. Just reset the time to current time and recompile. Works for me. Time and date obviously. Kevin tried to compile in support

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-20 Thread Lee Johnson
Kevin Hancock wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: Your clock is wrong and some things were not compiled? Every time my clock is behind the last compile time I get those errors. Just reset the time to current time and recompile. Works for me. Time and date obviously. another

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-20 Thread Kevin Hancock
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: date 072103262000 Sets the time to 07 Month 21 day 03 hour 26 Minute 2000 Year man date prints a whole lot more Will work from console. Mostly all I ever use :- Cheers kevin Kevin Hancock wrote: On