Kernel Boot Option Question

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:25:56PM -0500, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There seems to be an issue when a motherboards CMOS clock reports a time
> and date older than the one that was recorded during the last successful
> boot.  When this happens the system will fail to boot.
> 
> Is there a way to get the kernel to ignore a bad date and time from the
> BIOS at boot up, or an option to disable this check entirely?

That seems anomolous to me, we routinly write random debug information
into the RTC for suspend/resume debugging setting the clock to all sorts
of random times, and that does not trigger this behaviour.  I thought we
routinly updated the time using the on-disk superblock on boot anyhow.
If its breaking thats definatly a bug, I'd guess in the fsck handling in
general.

-apw