Re: Updating to woody from CD's

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hello David

Am 06-Sep-02 schrieb David Jones:

> Hi Andreas,
> On 04-Sep-02, you wrote:
>> Installing woody from the Cd's causes the clock to read 1902
> causingerrors to be reported on >all the packages, saying the date is
> in the future.
> 
> #Hmm, looks like the system gets dazzled by the fact that the
> packages#
> #have newer dates than the system clock. I guess your hardware clock#
> #is gone. #
> 
>> My hardware clock works perfectly with AmigaOS *_and_* with the
>> potato dist, but after updating the base system and afew other bits
> to woody the clock then resets to 1902. It keeps the _correct time_
> but the date is wrong.

And under potato, it works?? Strange thing, really!!

>> When I boot into Linux, I get the message 
> System time was ....."and this gives the correct time and date"
> Setting system clock using HDclock
> System clock time is now...."this give the correct time but in 1902"
> Therefore the clock is correct at the start (as it is in AmigaOS) then
> for some reason it resets to 1902, but it retains the correct time of
> day. (the day of the week seems to move on one day)

Really strange

> #..................This should set the system date correctly.#

And what happens after shutdown? I guess the system wants to write back soft
clock time to hardwrare clock, isn't it? What then happens when you boot back
to AmigaOS, do you the have the wrong date?

>> Thanks for the advise on updating the clock, 
>> I'll give this a try, but why is woody cocking things up? (ie. the
> clock)

I don't know, it's not normal behaviour (as you can imagine ;) ).

I suggest going with woody right from the start, using the "set date" method I
told you about, and leaving out the step with potato. Do a direct woody
installation, and we'll see if it works then.

Was it you which had problem booting 2.4.x kernels? Then go for 2.2.10 with
woody (but the one from the APUS page, not debian directory), or try the
latest 2.4.18-2 with disabled pci (but enabled cybppc scsi!).

Try it, and please report if it works.

-- 
Good luck, best wishes,
Andi