Re: Clock error on bootup - NSLU2

[Donald T Hayford <don%donhayford.com@localhost>]

Steve Woodford wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2008 22:57:29 Donald T Hayford wrote:
>   
> > I get the following error message when the NSLU2 is booting up.
> >
> > xrtc0: xrtc_clock_read: failed to read rtc at 0x0
> > xrtc0: xrtc_clock_read: failed to read rtc at 0x0
> > WARNING: preposterous TOD clock time
> > WARNING: using filesystem time
> > WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> >     
>
> NSLU2's clock is backed up by a battery. Have you tried setting the time 
> manually either using date(1) or ntpdate(8)?
>   
Both date and ntpdate work, and the Slug keeps pretty good time while 
powered.
> I suspect NetBSD and Linux encode the time slightly differently in the 
> RTC (they probably use a different epoch) so until you set the time 
> manually under NetBSD you will always see this message.
>   
Haven't run Linux on this particular device since I got NetBSD to work. 
:)  Perhaps I need a new battery.

Thanks,
Don