Re: help: clock resets on reboot
Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> John Foster wrote:
>
> > Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that
> > hold enough power to keep the hardware clock set to the correct time,
> > when the system is powered off. It appears that your battery is
> > degrading and may need to be replaced.
>
> But it's right when it boots: if I hit F1 and check in the CMOS before lilo loads,
> the clock is accurate. If I go into Windows through lilo, the clock is accurate
> there. But when I load a linux kernel, it gets reset. (rebuilding a kernel from
> scratch is on my list of things to do today now.) That's why I didn't think initally
> that it was the battery. Would a dying battery cause this kind of behavior?
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NO! I assumed that the problem was universal regardless of OS. Since
that is not the case you are correct to compile a new kernel.
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John Foster
AdVance-Computing Systems
jfoster@augustmail.com
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