Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:10:26 -0800 (PST) From: GReg meno <kbagel@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time. Message-ID: <20000131011026.12949.qmail@web2006.mail.yahoo.com>
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i'm running FreeBSD 4.0-19991225-CURRENT on an LX164 greg --- Matthew Jacob <mjacob@veritas.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, GReg meno wrote: > > > my systems time is messed up > > date returns a random time which is sometimes off > a > > day and a few hours or a year > > on bootup i get > > > > WARNING: preposterous clock chip time > > --- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE! > > > > what is going on here? > > Need some more details. There was, hee hee, a y2k > bug when it didn't > believe that year < 70 was a valid year. This was > fixed around the 2nd of > January for -current. So -what kernel are you > running. What machine, > etc... > > If you are running this particular machine with > OSF/1, there's a different > interpretation on the NVRAM in the toy (chip), or if > you switch with ARC > and run NT, there's yet *another* intepretation of > NVRAM, so they all step > on each other. This is a known problem, but hasn't > been a high priority > issue to fix. > > > > > > PS is there some website for freebsd alpha > simmilar to > > www.alphalinux.org that has answers to all these > kind > > of questions ? > > Wish there was- I don't know if there really is one > set up yet. We sure > need one. > > -matt > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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