Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 23:54, Scott Holder wrote: > On 2/28/2011 5:45 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> >> >> I think that distributions run hwclock, check filesystems, >> then run hwclock again, even. But, see above, it may not >> be enough. I seem to recall an answer from that discussion >> simply

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven dixit: > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:34, Finn Thain > > wrote: > > > > > It doesn't matter what the clock says if root is read-only. > > I think the problem is that the root filesystem is never really > read-only because the

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Holder
On 2/28/2011 5:45 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: I think that distributions run hwclock, check filesystems, then run hwclock again, even. But, see above, it may not be enough. I seem to recall an answer from that discussion simply saying to “fix your clock”, so, it may be the kernel that needs to se

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Geert Uytterhoeven dixit: >On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:34, Finn Thain wrote: >> It doesn't matter what the clock says if root is read-only. I think the problem is that the root filesystem is never really read-only because the kernel does journal replays and things like that, too eatly (there was

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, I wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Michael Tomkins wrote: > > > > > > > Doesn?t the kernel set the clock now, before that? > > > > Yes, > > Well, this won't work correctly unless your RTC is in UTC, and MacOS > uses localtime not UTC. I think you would run "hwclock --s

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Finn Thain
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Isn't the check on the rootfs done _before_ hwclock runs? I don't know how squeeze does things, but I hope to find out. Finn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: 2.6.37 and other things.

2011-02-28 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:34, Finn Thain wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Finn Thain dixit: >> >> > Doesn?t the kernel set the clock now, before that? >> >> >> >> Yes, >> > >> >Well, this won't work correctly unless your RTC is in UTC, and MacOS >> >uses localtime not UTC.