Dale wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 4 Nov 2009, at 15:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> Somehow the date of last fsck on /boot is seen as `in the future' so
>>>> fsck fails on /dev/had1 (/boot).
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The first thing I would want to check is the motherboard battery. Is
>>> the time correct if you reboot and immediately enter BIOS?
>>>
>>>
>> That was a pretty good help but apparently not all the story.
>>
>> When I checked bios, the clock was exactly 1 hr fast (didn't pick up
>> the end of daylight saving time I guess).
>>
>> Reset the clock and tested with 2 more reboots, each time mounting
>> /boot and fiddling around with files.
>>
>> Each time the same failure occurs. I check bios time again. Its
>> right.
>>
>> Here is the (edited) output form fsck
>>
>> Superblock last mount time (Wed Nov 4 18:05:13 2009,
>> now = Wed Nov 4 12:11:49 2009) is in the future.
>> Fix<y>? yes
>>
>> [...]
>> ------- --------- ---=--- --------- --------
>> Superblock last mount time (Wed Nov 4 18:14:54 2009,
>> now = Wed Nov 4 12:18:01 2009) is in the future.
>> Fix<y>? yes
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> so still somehow, those last mount dates are way wrong.
>>
>> I hope I'm checking the right thing in bios. Its under cmos and shows
>> the time ticking away. You can adjust all columns. with +/-.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I can't recall exactly how I did this but there is a command to tell the
> OS to set the clock on the mobo to the system time when shutting down.
> That way everything should sync up when you reboot, except for that tiny
> little bit if you shutdown completely for a few days or something. The
> command is hwclock. I can't recall where I put the thing because I am
> logged into KDE 4 and I can't find nothing in here yet. It's pretty but
> it is different so I'm lost.
>
> I *think* I put it in the rc file or something. I remember the file is
> run during shutdown tho. That may help if you know which file that is.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>
>
It's in /etc/conf.d/clock (or /etc/conf.d/hwclock for baselayout
2/openrc), and it's called CLOCK_SYSTOHC. Set it to yes to write the
system time to hardware on shutdown.
