On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:36:56PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
You need to set the clock, using ntp, or a command, or whatever.
VAXen in
general do not have an external clock that tells absolute time.
There is a clock that runs when power is off, but it only keeps
trackof
time for about a year before it wraps (it's a simple counter). So
time gets
set based on when the system was shut down, and what this counter then
tells.
"when the system was shut down" is the superblock timestamp in ffs?
This does not exist, the disk image is (virtually) all zeros.
How can we fix this when booting from an ISO image?
We could do some stupid hack like have sysinst check for dates
before it
was build and if clock is that far in the past, ask the user for manual
time setup (and anita could then react to those prompts).