Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: The default seems to be yes, according to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh. You could try to set it to no. Samuel I set it to no and uncommented the line, i still have the problem. It is interesting that a single-boot user too yields the problem. However if booting gets

Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: Do you have HWCLOCKACCESS enabled in /etc/default/hwclock and rcS? Otherwise I don't see how a BIOS manages to let an OS disturb its RTC... I don't have it, as I wrote, at least, the line is commented out. What's the default? shoul I explicitely set it to NO? I

Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Wed 14 May 2014 16:07:19 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: Do you have HWCLOCKACCESS enabled in /etc/default/hwclock and rcS? Otherwise I don't see how a BIOS manages to let an OS disturb its RTC... I don't have it, as I wrote, at least, the line is commented out.

Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Samuel Thibault wrote: Do you have HWCLOCKACCESS enabled in /etc/default/hwclock and rcS? Otherwise I don't see how a BIOS manages to let an OS disturb its RTC... The line is commented out. # Set this to yes if it is possible to access the hardware clock, # or no if it is not.

Re: hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Mon 28 Apr 2014 15:03:13 +0200, a écrit : If I boot into the hurd, the clock settings are gone! The BIOS fails checksum and I need to reenter all the values. Do you have HWCLOCKACCESS enabled in /etc/default/hwclock and rcS? Otherwise I don't see how a BIOS manages to let

hurd and BIOS/RTC problem

2014-04-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, while testing my old HURD box (remember, real hardware, not a VM) I noticed that I have troubles with my BIOS settings and the RTC. The preface is that about a year ago, with my old install, I did not have this behavior. If I boot into the hurd, the clock settings are gone! The BIOS