[Voyage-linux] Re: Hardware clock setting

[Ward Vandewege]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:38:53PM +0000, Nick Taylor wrote:
> Chris Pawelko <chris at ...> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to set the time on an ALIX box using Voyage. I can set the
> > time using the date command but when I reboot (or the box is powered off)
> > the time doesn't stick. I have tried it with the remountrw and remountro.
> > 
> > Is there something that I'm missing?
> > 
> Do you have a CMOS battery on your ALIX? Without this the hardware clock can't
> function when powered down.

Yeah. That's the problem on my alix.2c3. The alix.1c has a cmos battery
though.

Thanks,
Ward.

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