In message <E1AVGk6-000D75-Ih_at_cs.huji.ac.il>, Danny Braniss writes: > >> If you run adjkerntz -a it fiddles the CMOS RTC clock and possibly the >> "century" byte I think. If your BIOS uses a checksum on the RTC and >> adjkerntz doesn't know about it, your BIOS will think the contents is >> trashed. >> >> Try booting to single user and shut down immediately, does it still >> happen then ? > >tricky, im using a serial console, and after the F1 for Freebsd, >the screen goes wild till the actual boot starts, so i can't get it to boot >single user, but i'll try the loader.conf route, > >if i shutdown, power cycle, and boot, all is ok, does that count? >From single user mode ? Yes, because in that case adjkerntz obviously hasn't been run. Next experiment would obviously be to boot single user, run adjkerntz -a manually, shutdown and see what happens. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Dec 13 2003 - 11:54:49 UTC
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