Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5277
Intel ca810 M-Boards hang on boot, no tick to sync hwclock.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:51 EDT
It looks like there is a compatibility problem with the 810 series of Intel M-boards (I'm using RH 6.0 but I expect this issue with earlier versions as well). This is a Celeron board, my experience has been with two CA810 boards, the BIOS version of one of them is Phoenix 8c1a100a.86a.0010.p03 (really) and I've come across the deja post http://x38.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=476753527&CONTEXT=937526718.243400716&hitnum=0 Apparently, the on-board clock doesn't provide a tick for the system clock to sync to, and rc.sysinit hangs setting the system clock (/sbin/hwclock). Apparently ctrl-c will bypass the hang, but I haven't tried tried that. If the clock section of rc.sysinit is commented out, it will boot, but expect problems (networking, filesystem, etc) from not setting the clock. A better solution might be to write a script to request current time at boot-up then run a script to set it more accurately from the network. #!/bin/bash rdate -s <url of a timeserver> setclock Some links on the board... http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/ca810/ http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/ http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/i810feat.htm http://support.intel.com/design/chipsets/810/ // George --
Do you have another example on this? Quoting the post: -- Never mind, I'm banging my head on the keyboard right now. The motherboard was faulty. --
Actually the motherboard was faulty. The bios clock would not advance. When Linux boots it waits for 1 tick of the clock before booting. I troubleshot linux to death before even looking at the hardware. Lesson well learned. -- original author Their have been two additional instances that I've been made aware of.