baeuchlein on 23/5/2008 at 11:24
Quote Posted by twisty
* It still couldn't install Grub via the install disk onto my SATA Raptor (non raid).
* Although it got Perth WA time correct during the install process, after the install was complete the time was 14 or so hours further than the real time. My BIOS time remained correct and after I booted back into Windows the time was also out by 14 hours. Very strange! I'm really puzzled at how it manages to do this to my Windows desktop despite not changing the BIOS.
I have a problem with grub too, now. I had compiled a custom kernel and wrote a new entry for booting it in /boot/grub/menu.lst. Unfortunately, after a few days, this entry suddenly vanished from the file, yet some other changes I made at the same time are still there. Some idiotic program obviously fumbled around in my configuration file, without asking or even
telling me! I just wonder whether it's grub itself, or the Debian system. Either way, I think I'm going to trash grub again and perhaps use LILO instead.
Concerning that strange "clock anomaly": Have you re-checked the BIOS time after seeing that 14-hours clock shift in Windows? Maybe somehow, the BIOS clock has been set to a wrong time
after you last checked it. If not, then I ran out of ideas concerning the clock issue.
twisty on 23/5/2008 at 12:16
No, I checked the BIOS time straight after reinstalling Linux and it hadn't changed. But the time in Windows did change which is what I find the most perplexing about all of this.
BobbyNewmark on 11/6/2008 at 12:38
Ubuntu uses UTC and will read and write the hardware clock that way. Windows on the other hand uses local time, so when dual booting they'll be fighting each other over the hardware clock.
Despite UTC being the 'correct' setting, since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to set windows to use UTC you'll have to tell ubuntu to use local time in /etc/default/rcS.
UTC=no
Brian The Dog on 13/6/2008 at 13:49
Yes, I had the same issue when the UK switched over to British Summer Time (BST) from GMT (~=UTC), so thanks for the info.
I also had problems installing Ubuntu on my PC (Ubuntu v.7.10 x64) a few months back, since GRUB would (a) overwrite the MBR on my seperate Windows hard drive (despite being told not to), and (b) not be able to load Ubuntu afterwards. The only way I found to fix this was to physically unplug all other hard drives except the one Ubuntu was going to be on, and plug them back in after installing Ubuntu. Even turning the IDE channels off in the BIOS, it would still write to them...
Twisty, Jay's reply about installing the video drivers should work providing you are connected to the internet - I had some minor problems finding a compatable NVidia driver as a .deb with it's required packages for my non-internet-connected PC, which I can email you if you're not on the internet with it. I had exactly the same problem with the NVidia drivers for my 7950GT from the official website, I never worked out how to do it - even when I found out how to log-in from a command prompt, it still gave the same error about X-Windows.
twisty on 19/6/2008 at 00:40
Thanks. I've put HH on the back burner for a while but I will definitely try the UTC settings and look further into the Nvidia driver problem when I reinstall it again.
