Subject: Re: TiBook install problems: XFree and time
From: Bill Fink (billfink@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 20:00:20 MST
On Fri Jan 11 2002, Jonathan Singer wrote:
> 2) Is there a way to get yaboot/OF to stop resetting the clock on every boot?
> Oddly, there was nothing I could find on this on Usenet.
Hi Jonathan,
I don't know if the following is the cause of your problems or not,
but I had a similar problem and here's what I did to fix it. If you
happen to have separate / and /usr partitions, the startup scripts
will not work correctly to set the system time.
Do the following:
ls -gl /etc/localtime
and note where the symbolic link is pointing to. In my case, it is
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern. The problem is caused because /usr
isn't mounted yet when the setting of the system time is performed.
To fix it, simply do the following as root:
mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.orig
and then copy the real timezone file to /etc/localtime, which in my
case was done with the command:
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
Of course, if you don't have separate / and /usr partitions, then
this isn't the cause of your problem.
-Bill
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