[Soekris] nvram warning in dmesg openbsd

Igor Sobrado igor at string1.ciencias.uniovi.es
Sat May 5 17:39:23 UTC 2007


In message <d7e6c3bc0705041234t12d246bflbd26d87bebbe6dc3 at mail.gmail.com>, wouter lists writes:
> 
> I can see the next warning in the dmesg:
> root on wd0a
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
> WARNING: NVRAM century is 19 but RTC year is 2007
> 
> Any idea what this warning means and how can I get rid of it?

Hi, Wouter.

First time I see that message in a soekris computer.  I would suggest
setting the time in BOTH the soekris comBIOS and OpenBSD.  It seems
that the century has not been correctly updated.

By the way, how is that computer setting the time?  OpenNTP?  date(1)?
rdate?

Cheers,
Igor.


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