HW: Asus A7V mobo Athlon/T-bird 1Ghz 256MB IDE drives SMC PCI network card GeForce 2 GTS display adapter SB Live sound I would like the machine to power on at a fixed time, everyday. I've enabled the "Everyday" (at 8am) automatic power feature of the mobo. Regardless of whether the machine is powered on manually or allowed to come on automatically, the problem manifests itself regardless. The problem is that when the system's BIOS settings specify auto power on, the invocation of /sbin/hwclock by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, hangs. Just the process running hwclock hangs. If you ctl-C, the boot continues until logging is started, then the boot will progress no further. Repeat by: 1. halt system 2. Bring up BIOS menu, enable auto power on feature, Everyday, 8am. 3. Save new BIOS settings. 4. Permit system to finish booting (it probably will succeed). 5. Halt system, power off system. 6. Power on, Boot system..., will probably hang in hwclock as specified above. To "fix": 7. reset system... 8. Bring up BIOS menu, disable auto power on 9. Continue booting (boot single user "linux -s"). 10. System will probably hang in hwclock. 11. Hit ctl-C if/when it hangs during single user boot. 12. Not sure why..., but the following "fixes" the hang: #fsck /dev/hda1 (Always reports clean) #mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda1 / #sync #halt 13. Power system off 14. Power on, and allow to boot normally, everything should be back to normal. I'll dig around on the Asus website when I can get access. I know that this may not be a Redhat/Linux issue, but I thought it worth mentioning..., and in these days of "Stage 2 power alerts", I'd like to be a good power citizen.
This has been the only report and it is not reproducable for me, so I am closing this down. greetings, Florian La Roche