Debugging times

[Ivan Voras]

David Malone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:25:46PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> The date is set wrong either on boot or very early after the kernel has
>> booted (I've verified it's wrong before hostid rc.d script, which is one
>> of the first to be executed).
> 
> I have some patches to make the code that reads the date from the
> bios print errors if there is a problem parsing the date. I was
> going to commit them to -current, but it might be useful for you
> to test them?

Yes, I'll test them.

The problem is - the same kernel works when booted off a hard drive, so
unless the VMWare BIOS is very messed up (it's the first time I see such
problems) it may not help. Please, scatter debug printf's around so I
can see what's going on :)