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Re: Two system problems





Shaul Karl wrote:

> Regarding the boot problem:
> Not sure if/how that is relevant but you did not mentioned having fdisk 
> change the boot flag to another device.


No I used PartitionMagic (on 2 diskettes) to set up the disk. Didn't use fdisk 
at all.


> 
> 
> 
>>
>>Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In SuSE's admin tool YaST you can choose wether the hardware clock is set
>>>to GMT or local time. Maybe you got this wrong ?
>>>
>>
>>Nope.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Alternatively make sure that your /etc/rc.config contains something like
>>>this:
>>>
>>>--------------
>>>#
>>># Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, otherwise "".
>>>#
>>>GMT=""
>>>
>>>#
>>># Timezone (e.g. CET)
>>># (this will set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime)
>>>#
>>>TIMEZONE="Israel"
>>>
>>>-------------------
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Did that. On my "junk" system, there is no problem; on the main system there is.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Schlomo
>>>
>>>
>>>On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Hi folks!
>>>>>
>>>>>1. I reorganised my system, splitting it into multiple mount points for logistic
>>>>>reasons. I tried using Partiton Magic, as I usually do, but on a 30Gb drive it
>>>>>bombed out, so there was nothing for it, but to build a new minimal system,
>>>>>install bru (my backup choice) and restore everything with overwrite i.e. what
>>>>>came out at the other end was (after fiddling fstab and lilo.conf), a perfect
>>>>>working system - same as before EXCEPT ... the time (IST, local time (not GMT))
>>>>>insists on being two hours ahead of the CMOS clock. I can only correct it per
>>>>>boot by manually using date MMDDhhmm etc. Any ideas what might be causing this &
>>>>>how to fix? (Env = {SuSE 7.1, kernel 2.4.9, ...}) (I tried a few other nonesense
>>>>>settings and always get the same thing. Win 2000 works OK).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Doesn't the fact that Win 2000 works OK means that your CMOS time is adjusted
>>>>to show IST?
>>>>IIRC, this can explains your time problem: Linux is adjusted to read the CMOS
>>>>time as UTC and thus add 2 hours when it needs to show IST.
>>>>It could be that at least with Debian, hwclock and/or some setting for the
>>>>boot scripts can fixed that. Probably something similar for SUSE.
>>>>BTW: hwclock can show you the CMOS actual time. IIRC it can also set the CMOS
>>>>time. Should help you to find the cause and fix the problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>2. One of the "junk" systems I put together, has a P166 + 32Mb and a "dafuk" IDE
>>>>>primary slot (The machine originally had Win 95 on a 2Gb drive which booted OK
>>>>>
>>>>>from the the second IDE slot.) With Linux, I can only boot off a floppy, since
>>>>
>>>>>lilo won't allow an IDE hard disk boot from anthing other than
>>>>>/dev/hda<something>. Upon examining the lilo.conf man page I found all sorts of
>>>>>interesting tricks for remapping the IDE drive ID's: e.g.
>>>>>disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80
>>>>>or
>>>>>map-drive=0x82 to=0x80
>>>>>
>>>>>My root device is /dev/hdc5, and I boot from on /dev/fd0. I would like to use
>>>>>the above disk= ... mapping. I modified lilo.conf to root, /dev/hda5, boot from
>>>>>/dev/hda2 and put the boot sector on /dev/hda MBR. I also modified fstab to
>>>>>reflect the new arrangement. Of coure lilo failed, because the new arrangements
>>>>>are meaningless until I reboot, which I cannot do! What to do?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks to the people who supplied the "junk". I'm still looking for Pentium
>>>>>stuff, MB with slot 7 or better.
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Dan Feiglin
>>>>>
>>>>>
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