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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: Debugging times
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:29:26AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Yes, I'll test them.
> 
> The problem is - the same kernel works when booted off a hard drive, so
> unless the VMWare BIOS is very messed up (it's the first time I see such
> problems) it may not help. Please, scatter debug printf's around so I
> can see what's going on :)

Try the patch at:

	http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/clock.patch

It checks the return values of the various clock reading functions
in the kernel and prints an error message if it finds that it can't
set the clock OK. Some machines have a BIOS that doesn't count the
day-of-week correctly, and recently FreeBSD has started treating
this as an error on some platforms.

(This patch won't fix anything, but might produce a more informative
error message.)

	David.