SC520 and reboot

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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.


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