Debian - clock timer configuration lost! The Solution!
Sven Ahnert
this error in debian under VMware4:
probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost probably a VIA686a
probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration
ToDo:
BootPrompt of the Install.CD - Hit F3, type bf24 , ENTER - works!
Tip kommt übrigens von dieser deutschen Seite:
http://www.vmaschinen.de/cgi-bin/xpm.cgi?xtips-99999990368
Tim Mann
> High,
>
> this error in debian under VMware4:
> probable hardware bug: clock timer configuration lost probably a VIA686a
> probable hardware bug: restoring chip configuration
The above message is printed because of a Linux kernel bug; Linux is
mistaken about the way the timer hardware is supposed to work and
falsely reports a bug. The message occurs on real hardware too. The
best way to get rid of this message is to upgrade to a newer kernel.
Sorry, I don't remember exactly what kernel version it was fixed in, but
it was a long time ago.
> ToDo:
> BootPrompt of the Install.CD - Hit F3, type bf24 , ENTER - works!
This tip makes no sense to me whatever.
> Tip kommt _brigens von dieser deutschen Seite:
> http://www.vmaschinen.de/cgi-bin/xpm.cgi?xtips-99999990368
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Tim Mann
bißchen Deutsch), and it explains there that the way to fix the problem
is to use a 2.4 kernel. That makes sense.
I gather the cryptic instructions below about typing bf24 are the way
you get a 2.4 kernel on some version of Debian that is so old that it
defaults to a 2.2 kernel. I'm not a Debian user, so I didn't recognize
that. :-)