2002-Aug-19

To get lilo to make second disk bootable (like a mirror) when it is switched to new disk:

/mnt/root/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf-hdb-mirror -r /mnt/root -v -b /dev/hdb

(Note that chroot(1) is not needed.)

--- /etc/lilo.conf      Wed Jul 10 13:08:37 2002
+++ /etc/lilo.conf-hdb-mirror   Mon Aug 19 20:02:18 2002
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
boot=/dev/hda
+disk=/dev/hdb
+  bios=0x80
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt

Look at source to see when resettodr(9) is called. It ("set battery-backed clock from system time") happens during cpu_reboot() in sys/arch/i386/i386/machdep.c.

And looked at source for "clock: unknown CMOS layout" kernel message. It is in /sys/arch/i386/isa/clock.c. I believe it happens when trying to get a CMOS century byte -- maybe an old CMOS.

My xconsole reported:

sshd[5124]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key

So I ran: "/etc/rc.d/sshd forcekeygen". This skipped existing keys and then generated public/private rsa key pair.