On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:58:03PM -0500, spencer underground wrote: > OK. I know I need to take the laptop in to recieve a new cmos battery. The > only thing is First Tech is closed until Thursday. I would really be happy to > boot into Linux on the notebook, but it hangs on setting up the cmos clock. I > will buy large beer for anyone that can tell me a workable workaround for > this. Open Firmware is probably the key. Maybe a boot param to kill the > offending process. Boot with <kernel> init=/bin/bash and then go into the /etc/init.d and grep for setting the clock. florin PS: this advice is not worth a beer 8-) ... it's the last resort -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4