Fedora 9 /dev/rtc missing

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:04 -0700, byrdca at gmail.com wrote:
> I have a dual boot Fedora 9 / Win XP Pro box.  I notice that when I
> boot to fedora my time is wrong and "System Clock Uses UTC" is still
> checked even though I unchecked it at install time.  When attempting
> to clear the "UTC" check box and reset the time with
> system-config-date I get the following error "Failed to synchronize
> hardware clock.  This may be because there is no hardware clock
> accessible, e.g. when running in a virtualized environment".  I am not
> running in a virtualized environment so I checked the output of the
> following:
> 
>   hwclock --debug --show
> 
> and got the following response
> 
>   hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1
>   hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=2: No such file or directory.
>   No usable clock interface found.
>   Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
> 
> I ran dmesg | grep /dev/rtc and got no hits, I booted hit del to enter
> setup and checked the cmos menu in order to look at the clock and it
> seemed right so I don't think the battery has failed.
> 
> output of uname -r is
> 
>   2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
> 
> 
> Does the list have any ideas?

Does the /dev/rtc device file exist? ('ls -l /dev/rtc'). Does the output
of 'cat /proc/devices' contain an rtc line?

Also, 'man MAKEDEV'.

poc