Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Richard Smith wrote: > > > > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have > > to set the clock every > > > > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does > > freebsd use the > > > > CMOS clock? > > > > > > An idea would to use NTP to get the exact time from > > y

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:58 +0100 Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every > > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:17:39 -0700 (PDT), Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every > time i boot into freebsd? and by the way, does freebsd use the > CMOS clock? An idea would to use NTP to get the exact time from your local ato

odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Richard Smith
Hi! I found that the freebsd system clock just stops when i shutdown or reboot the computer. what is odd is that the clock in my BIOS shows the right time, so it couldn't be that CMOS battery is dead. How do i get around this so i wouldn't have to set the clock every time i boot into freebsd? an