Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

[Kulwant B. <kul...@bt...>]

Hello Andi, 

> Though in /drivers/char/rtc.c there's a comment mentioning something
> about periodic syncs (every 11 min) by time.c (line 54).. So you're
> system should at least run for 11 min uninterrupted..

See below. 

> What you could also do is to

>   # mv /sbin/hwclock /sbin/OFFhwclock

> although this is really really ugly!! But it should prevent the system
> from interacting with the hardware clock.

Ok, I did this. And no crashes. It went on to configuring the base system
etc. But I didn't really know what I was doing so I have quit out of that
without installing or deleting anything. I didn't get to a shell either so I
couldn't set the date even manually (as you suggested below). 

> Afterwards set the system clock using

>   # date 1214200003

Well the system did run in the configure base system section for ages (I
left it alone for over an hour) and I didn't get any problems associated
with the 11 min interupt you suggested above. 

> But this is definitely not how a productive system should be run! So,
> try to get the dmesg output anyway and post it.

Try as I might I just don't get any debug output from dmesg. It simply says:

Searching for SAVEBOOT magic...
Not found

I have tried starting wth no startup-sequence and before the reset from
OS3.9 but still no joy. I inserted the -d in my start script like so: 

bootstrap --apus -k linux.bin -d -v root=/dev/hda2 rw nobats video=pm2fb:mode:1024x768-75

not sure what the -v is for. Is the -d in the right place?  

I did notice that I do get more prompts on running that script with the -d
option in there. So I think it is doing something. But Dmesg doesn't find
any debug information after a reset. The other question is, is there a way
of resetting the Linux side which cleanly unmounts my hda2 partition? 
And is there a way of resetting which will save the debug information too? 

Kind Regards, 

Kulwant