On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Kevin A. Foss wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:55:58AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have noticed that sometimes I get this boot error: > > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. > > Could someone tell what and how dengerous it is? > > This is probably from hwclock, it will say this if your bios returns > what appears to be an invalid time. (Until quite recently hwclock > was rather strict about where the century byte should be -- more > strict than the bios manufacturers.) Try running hwclock and see > what happens. > > I've gotten this error on every original IBM machine I've tried -- > both PS/2s and Valuepoints. I'm not sure why you would get this > only 'sometimes' however, it should really be everytime. > Thanks Kevin
This is exactly what happened. The bios clock was showing 2099 :) I have seen this on several pentium machines (not running linux).. 'sometimes' is because I have noticed it and fixed the bios date back to 1999 :) Thanks again ZORO ================================================ Take these broken wings and learn to fly... ///|\\\ 0 0 ( . ) http://pages.nyu.edu/~rqf6512 - | |