Hi,

I recently got a Pegasos2 (Thanks Sven and all concerned at Genesi! )
There were one or two issues : a reset switch got broke in transit which made it
hard to boot, but during fixing this I took out the battery to see if that would help;
now the clock is reset to 1 Jab 1970 (the HW clock) , and under Debian I cannot
reset it: 'hwclock' hangs. I currently have the system working by commenting
out hwclock and using ntpdate, but how can I fix it? Is there an OF command I
need to do?

Thanks
Alastair McKinstry

I got this problem on a Pegasos II ones, and couldn't find a solution in Linux for it.

I booted MorphOS and issued the shell-command;

> Setclock reset

That fixed it.

Gunne

Ok, so there is a solution

Unfortunately I don't have morphOS (I trashed the disk figuring out how to install);
any ideas as to where to get the docs and fix 'hwclock' for Pegasos2?

Thx
Alastair

Hi Alastair

I see.

I suggest you ask the people who shipped you the machine, if they can supply you with a MorphOS CD.

Or, you could send me a email to my company; gunne@ggsdata.se and we can help you out.

Thank You !

Gunne

Did you try setting the hwclock directly once the system is running ? With something like :
Or :
Try these and report back, and we will see if there is something else needed if this doesn't work out (not before monday though).

Friendly,

Sven Luther

I would be interested in knowing if this works to do in Linux as well

Gunne

Yes, in fact running

hwclock --systohc

hangs the system trying to set the clock ; I've had to edit it out of the
/etc/init.d for the moment, and rely on ntpdate.

The kernel log has "localhost kernel: Warning: real time clock seems stuck!"
warnings during boot.

This is the 2.6 kernel from Svens directory. So perhaps the reset code from
morphOS should be ported? Any email addresses for the morphos developers?

Thanks
Alastair

amck:

Actually that was exactly what I also found out myself when trying this in Linux, when this fault occured on a Pegasos for us here.

The MorphOS command solved it.

Gunne

Very strange. On my Sarge (at even Woody) distribution it worked. Upon shutdown system updated hardware clock from OS clock and everything went almost fine. I say "Almost" because this confused MorphOS because MorphOS and Linux store dates beyond 2000 in different formats. Linux is able to load MorphOS date correctly but not vice versa. So i disabled this by correcting a script in /etc/init.d.