The PowerMac G5 has a small lithium battery on the motherboard that can be replaced.
Instructions can be found here: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+Power+Mac+G5+Backup+Battery/1951/1 Good luck On Mar 14, 2013 5:46 AM, "manjohnson" <man.john...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm having a problem with the hardware clock on a powermac G5 with Debian > installed. > The time keeps resetting to 1970 at each boot though I changed the PRAM > battery. > When I issue a clock -w command the system complains: > "unable to open /dev/adb read/write : : No such file or directory" > At boot time a kernel message says: > "clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete." > I noticed this while trying without success to boot a recently compiled > real-time kernel. > I managed to use ntpdate to skirt around the problem with my Debian kernel > but I would > like to know if my box can be repaired and how to do it. > Thank you in advance for your help. > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Problem-with-a-G5-hardware-clock-tp2890716.html > Sent from the debian-powerpc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1363254351634-2890716.p...@n7.nabble.com > >
