On 20/07/07 at 13:02 - clarkt@cnsp.com
I have had 10.2 installed on one of my boxes since it was first released and until today it never given me any problems. When I turned this box on today the boot process started and froze at "Setting up the hardware clock". Tried several hardware resets and a few attempts at a "Safe Boot", but it continues to freeze at the same point. There is no problem booting into Win XP, or live CDs from 4 other distros where there does not appear issue with the date/time setting.
Can anyone offer any thoughts or suggestions as to a possible cause and/or solution.
TIA
Dave
If this is a 64 bit system, replace /sbin/hwclock with the 32 bit version of hwclock.
Yes, it is a 64 bit system. I have seen some reference to this in my searches prior to posting here. Strange that this should suddenly become a problem after all this time. Guess I have just been real lucky all these months. Next question: How do you boot a non-booting system to make this change? Thanks Dave