Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:00:55 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA hangs while calibrating clocks... Message-ID: <199612181100.WAA31169@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA on my machine. Here is >configuration: > >* MB SOYO Intel Triton HX, Pentium 120MHz, BIOS Award >* 64MB RAM EDO, pipeline burst cache 512k >* HDD IDE WDC32100 (2.1 GB) LBA mode 4, floppy drive etc... >* 3c509 ISA ethernet adapter (ep0) > >The kernel is, of course, GENERIC 2.2-ALPHA. > >So, the installation itself goes well (although I used 2.1.6 install >floppy), and then, after rebooting with newly installed system, it hangs >almost forever (at least for 15 minutes :-) ) saying: > >Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock... > >and then says it failed. > >So my question is: do I have a broken motherboard? Are there any options >in kernel config that I should change in order to avoid this looong >waiting? The RTC seems to be broken after the reboot. The calibration routine just waits for the seconds counter to change twice. It apparently didn't change for 15 minutes. There is a generous timeout of 100 million reads of the seconds counter to give it a chance to change. Change it to 1 million (in clock.c). Bruce
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