Re: [OT] booting through RTC wake-up

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Alban Browaeys wrote:
> > But if I put a timer between the power and the voltage regulator and pop
> > the timer at 1AM, it does NOT work.
>
>
> I add the same problem years ago. I do not shut the power off with a timer
> behind the pc now , but nvram-wakeup (on sourceforge) led to think the BIOS


Did not know about this tool. Installed it from Debian Sarge and 
followed the guess-helper instructions for 4 boots and got a good conf 
file for running with --directisa. Set the wake-up time and seems to work.

Now I don't have to go into BIOS.

Thanks.

H





> timer is not jsut hour-minutes-secondes , but a  fulldate (with year, month and
> day). I have no proof of this though it lead me to one conclusion:
> i guess the day part is incremented sometime in the day , if power is plugged.
>
> thus power should be on at this time to get the timer to know it shoudl wakeup
> at 7PM today and not yesterday.
>
> PS: i have a lot of evidence that this is just a crazy guess ... the internal
> battery that should provide enough power for monthes , etc . 
> though i still believe there is an only way to be remove this option , testing
> with letting power on on most obvious time for increment (12PM or 12AM or my
> best bet)
>
> Cheers
> Alban