Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:09:53 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lost boot up (pre DMESG) messages - BIOS mem ... Message-ID: <199703280409.UAA24246@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 22:08:57 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970327220540.288A-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net>
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>Thanks for the replies. I am not worried about the message or even the 1K >lost (which I understand perfectly - I had already checked my BIOS before >sending the message to see if that 1K was configurable like it was on >some of my older machines), I'm merely curious what the acronym >RTC stand for (if anything!) Real Time Clock? Nah. Read The CMOS? Hmmm. Real Time Clock. The RTC has some non-volatile memory on it which stores the amount of system memory (up to 64MB). -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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