Re: Reatime-clock

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Rene Brothuhn wrote:

> My realtime-clock on my A4000 is brocken and I can`t boot apus
> anymore. I have replaced the battery but it seems that the RTC-chip
> does not working correctly, because A-Dos sometimes says: "bettery
> backed up clock not found". Maybe I have to replace this chip :-(
> Apus crashes with kernel access of bad area at the point where the
> system clock is setting up by reading the RTC. Has anyone an idea?
> Sometimes I can boot apus, if I manualy set the RTC with "setclock
> save" under A-Dos before booting apus.

Can you boot a kernel with RTC disabled or configured as a module and
remove the module? Or failing that, maybe someone could build such a
kernel for you?


> But then fsck is forced, damn ext2.

ext3 will be in 2.4.15. :)


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XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast