[SOLVED] Confusing Local Time

[ordep]

While you get the output of 'showbootcodes' as posted above, what is the output of 'uname -a'?

Linux box 3.0.21-tinycore #3021 SMP Sat Feb 18 11:54:11 EET 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

[tinypoodle]

Any idea where that "BOOT_IMAGE=TCL-sdb9" could come from?
Have you manually ever given such a name anywhere?

[ordep]

Any idea where that "BOOT_IMAGE=TCL-sdb9" could come from?
Have you manually ever given such a name anywhere?

In my working box Salix in lilo.conf the section for TCl reads:

image = /mnt/TCL/tce/boot/vmlinuz
initrd = /mnt/TCL/tce/boot/core.gz
root = /dev/sdb9
label = TCL-sdb9
read-only

Aha, and there is the

append="quiet vt.default_utf8=1"

at the beginning of lilo.conf.

So it seems those bootcodes come from the lilo.conf. 

[tinypoodle]

There you go!

What started as "Confusing Local Time" eventually turns out to be "Confusion about a misconfigured bootloader".

Better fix your boot configuration...
I seem to vaguely remember that one may have to update or rerun lilo after installing a new kernel or changing config. Consult documentation.

[ordep]

There you go!

What started as "Confusing Local Time" eventually turns out to be "Confusion about a misconfigured bootloader".

Better fix your boot configuration...
I seem to vaguely remember that one may have to update or rerun lilo after installing a new kernel or changing config. Consult documentation.

Yes that is SOP in my Linux book! 
It is then still confusing why TCL uses those codes and not the once give. Godfather DSL or KNOPPIX will not do it with the same lilo.conf settings.

[ordep]

Now how about these codes:

~$ showbootcodes
BOOT_IMAGE=TCL-sdb9 ro root=819 noswap noutc tz=PHT-8

or now

~$ date
Tue Jul 24 11:07:11 PHT 2012

Added in lilo.conf in TCL section

append = "noswap noutc tz=PHT-8"

Hopefully this ends all confusions.

[tinypoodle]

Also delete "root =" & "read-only"
Any system based on initramfs must not have such options.

[ordep]

Can we then say that if TCL is installed on a hard drive and boot loader is lilo the boot codes have to be placed into the /etc/lilo.conf file as append = .

In my lilo.conf the section for TCL reads now:

image = /mnt/TCL/tce/boot/vmlinuz
initrd = /mnt/TCL/tce/boot/core.gz
root = /dev/sdb9
append = "quiet noswap noutc tz=PHT-8"
label = TCL-sdb9

The vga=mode, in my case vga=791, is placed before the Linux bootable partition config begins at the end of the global section.

[tinypoodle]

What is the output of "showbootcodes" now?

[ordep]

What is the output of "showbootcodes" now?

BOOT_IMAGE=TCL-sdb9 quiet noswap noutc tz=PHT-8

[tinypoodle]

Looks much better now. 

Still not sure if that "root = /dev/sdb9" should be in there though...

[ordep]

root = /dev/sdb9 there or not does not seem to make any difference.

Just to double check for the whole concept of bootcodes in lilo.conf I booted from CD with "base". Installed to HD w/o any bootcodes.  Used the bootcodes in lilo.conf as outlined as "append = *". Run lilo, booted into the new TCL partition and all was set correctly such as set to local time.