Re: Dual-booting and the clock

[Serge Rey <rey@typhoon.sdsu.edu>]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:34:23AM -0700, Randy Tompot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have Dell Inspiron 8000 that dual boots to Progeny Debian and Win2K. The 2
> operating systems are fighting for control of the clock such that I can't
> get the time correct on both. It is set correctly as far as the BIOS is
> concerned. Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?
> 

it is probably easiest to have debian set the clock to local time when
running a dualboot system:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html#s-multiboot-with
 
serge
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