On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin A. Foss wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > > > > My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and > > 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. > [...] > > gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w > > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. > > You didn't mention the version of hwclock/util-linux you were using, > but older (slink-era) versions will fail on some CMOS because of where > the century byte is stored. I know I used to get exactly this error > when I first tried to get hwclock to work on a PS/2, for example.
Hi Kevin The machine is quite old, still has an ISA bus, circa 1993, running Linux 2.0. Ihe hwclock version is ... lesseee # hwclock --show mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. # hwclock --version hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6 OK? This didn't occur before the millenium, and may be similar to your situation. I HOPE you know a fix. If now, I will put another MB in it. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)