Re: Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-27 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Nathan Coulson wrote: >> I think moving it before mountkernfs would be an ideal time. > > hwclock needs to write to /var/lib/lastdate and /etc/adjtime. Could > /var/lib be remotely mounted? It doen't look like a good idea t

Re: Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it's always the right thing to get the kernel file systems >> mounted, modules loaded and devices created as soon as possible. I >> don't believe the cleanfs issue is important enough to merit wedging >> the setc

Re: Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nathan Coulson wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Gerard Beekmans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2160 >> >> The ticket is about a potential issue with bootscripts and from it came >> a suggestion to move the setclock call to earlier in

Re: Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-27 Thread Gerard Beekmans
> I think it's always the right thing to get the kernel file systems > mounted, modules loaded and devices created as soon as possible. I > don't believe the cleanfs issue is important enough to merit wedging > the setclock script in front of those steps. I'd personally rather > change cleanfs to o

Re: Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-27 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Nathan Coulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Gerard Beekmans > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2160 >> >> The ticket is about a potential issue with bootscripts and from it came >>

Re: Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-27 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2160 > > The ticket is about a potential issue with bootscripts and from it came > a suggestion to move the setclock call to earlier in the sequence. It > would help

Moving 'setclock' to earlier in the boot sequence

2008-05-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Please see http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2160 The ticket is about a potential issue with bootscripts and from it came a suggestion to move the setclock call to earlier in the sequence. It would help to address the issue but also having the system clock set accurately earlier is go