RE: "System Clock using hardware clock as ref" message while booting

Thanks a lot Chris, it has worked for now when I gave your command. Now the
iPAQ just bypasses this error message and boots on.

-Shahid

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pitchford [mailto:cpitchford@intrepid.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 5:20 PM
To: Shahid Bhatti
Cc: familiar@handhelds.org
Subject: Re: [Familiar] "System Clock using hardware clock as ref"
message while booting

in bootldr do

poke ram 0x90010004 22

then boot

This is a bug in the RTC module. the kernel on the 0.5.1 default install
is 2.4.16-hh6 and it can't cope with dates in Dec, you need to get a new
kernel from the lorien feed I believe to update this

the poke command "resets" the RTC clock in the ipaq so it doesn't hang
when init (via some rc.d script) calls hwclock to set the system clock
from the hardware one..

This is a known problem and afaik people are working on it.. for which I
am personally very grateful! (all-together-now) Thankyou kind
developers!

Chris Pitchford <cpitchford@intrepid.co.uk>
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Shahid Bhatti wrote:

> Hi All,
> I had installed successfully the Familiar Linux ver 0.5 on my Compaq iPAQ
> 3650 yesterday, but today when I restarted it by pressing the
"Reset" notch
> at the bottom of iPAQ it does not successfully boots but I see
the following
> message through HyperTerminal and iPAQ just sits there, does nothing:
>
> Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
>
> Any one seen above kind of error/message before please put some light,
> because I don't want to install the whole Linux again :(
> thanks a bunch,
>
> -Shahid
>
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Received on Tue Jan 8 17:30:54 2002