System date resetting when rebooting (FC4) (SOLVED)

[Stéphane Bruno]

Robin Laing wrote:

> Stéphane Bruno wrote:
>
>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>>> man hwclock
>>>
>>> hwclock is what I used in the past.
>>>
>>> Can also be used to test if talking to the hardware clock.
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried to use hwclock to set the hardware clock to the system time, 
>> here's the error I receive:
>>
>> "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
>>
>> It is the same error I receive when booting and shutting down, when 
>> the system tries to synchronize the hardware clock to the current date.
>>
>> I repeat that this is happening to three Pentium 4 DELL PowerEdge 
>> servers (two different models, tower and rackmount)
>>
>> Please. help
>>
>> Stéphane
>>
>
> At least to me, this confirms that the kernel is not able to talk to 
> the rtc.  I would be looking at BIOS settings.  This is beyond my 
> experiences.
>
> A quick search showed that this problem isn't only in Fedora but 
> Debian as well.  One suggestion was to turn acpi=off.
>
I turned acpi off and it worked. Thanks !!!

Stéphane