On Feb 20 07:38:47, Carson Chittom wrote: > Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes: > > > On 2012-02-20, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > >> I have seen this message after power-cycling an ALIX. > >> If completely switched off (take the power cord out), > >> the message appears on the next boot. On subsequent soft > >> reboots (without taking the power cord out) the message > >> does not appear. That makes me speculate that the battery > >> does not really work: it only keeps a charge when AC > >> is plugged in. > > > > Most models of Alix do not have a battery > > I figure Jan has already thought of this, but for my own edification: > wouldn't putting ntpd_flags="-s" in /etc/rc.conf.local--well, not fix, > but hide the problem (provided there is network connectivity) once the > system actually comes up? Or would that Be Bad?
Eh, that's exactly what I described in the mail. Anyway, the OP has a problem with this error message appearing over and over durin an installation.