On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:32:17PM -0500, Larry Mintz wrote:
> Did Y2K effect anyone running RH Linux 5.0/5.2 on a 486 based system ?
Not a 486, but a 386, but that's an old machine, too... :-)
Yep, I had problems with a Dell 333P (386/33) running RHL 5.2. When I
switched on for the first time on 03/01/2000, its hardware clock was
lagging as usual (it was still thinking it was 28/12/1999...), so I
reset the clock using date and hwclock under Linux. Bad move, as I found
out, as on next bootup, the machine had forgotten all it knew about its
hardrive and the BIOS date had reverted to 1991(?!).
I then set the date manually in BIOS to 03/01/2000 and reconfigured the
HD info. Since then, the machine is working perfectly. (Except for that
frigging slow clock... I'll get chrony to take care of that... :-/ ).
However, this will differ from machine to machine, depending on BIOS and
the implementation of the clock, so YMMV.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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