On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bruce Hill <da...@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard >> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is >> set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init >> system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in >> the future. >> >> Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when >> that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which >> component in th init process is failing. >> >> Going into the BIOS setup and setting the time ahead a minute or two >> will allow the system to start up normally. >> >> Is there any way to disable this "feature"? > > Replace your CMOS battery.
His system clock runs slow, it's not a matter of the CMOS battery being dead. If it were dead, the clock would be years off. > > Default behavior of agetty is to clear now. In /etc/inittab make sure you have > --noclear in tty1 like this: > > # TERMINALS > c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux -- :wq
