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Date:      Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:29:26 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Debugging times
Message-ID:  <f6ucs8$d6t$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070709214216.GA72912@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <f6u94s$v6o$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070709214216.GA72912@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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David Malone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:25:46PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
>> The date is set wrong either on boot or very early after the kernel has
>> booted (I've verified it's wrong before hostid rc.d script, which is one
>> of the first to be executed).
> 
> I have some patches to make the code that reads the date from the
> bios print errors if there is a problem parsing the date. I was
> going to commit them to -current, but it might be useful for you
> to test them?

Yes, I'll test them.

The problem is - the same kernel works when booted off a hard drive, so
unless the VMWare BIOS is very messed up (it's the first time I see such
problems) it may not help. Please, scatter debug printf's around so I
can see what's going on :)




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