On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard > clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is > set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init > system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in > the future. > > Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when > that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which > component in th init process is failing. > > Going into the BIOS setup and setting the time ahead a minute or two > will allow the system to start up normally. > > Is there any way to disable this "feature"?
Replace your CMOS battery. Default behavior of agetty is to clear now. In /etc/inittab make sure you have --noclear in tty1 like this: # TERMINALS c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux Bruce -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
