From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 17:56: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E06715076 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from prpetitt@theshop.net) Received: from getsmart (plum4.theshop.net [208.128.7.119]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA13741; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:56:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990929195146.00a3ac00@mail.theshop.net> X-Sender: prpetitt@mail.theshop.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:55:49 -0500 To: Alex From: "Paul R. Petitt" Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs BIOS ? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990930002415.A314@frustum.clara.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in your boards setup options are two settings of interest to you: quiet boot, and quick boot, quick boot will disable extended bios testing, and disabling quiet boot will cause all messages to display to the screen so you should no longer need to hit the escape key. also if you are interested, you can replace the default image, details are at www.intel.com At 12:24 AM 9/30/99 +0100, Alex wrote: >- Isn't BIOS only there to boot FreeBSD, and after that FreeBSD takes >care of the resources? > >- Does it need to have any information passed from BIOS apart from HD >size? > >On Intel motherboard with Pheonix's BIOS on every start up I am >greeted with "Motherboard by Intel" picture. To kill the picture and >ignore BIOS's memory test and start the boot process I press "Esq" >key, the picture gets killed and I boot into FreeBSD. > >"Nothing strange there", you might think,"FreeBSD doesn't depend on >the BIOS, so the memory test is not very useful to it". > >But on the boot before the last when I killed the BIOS's picture, >memory test only registered 9M of memory. When the FreeBSD started, it >only started with 9M of memory. > >FreeBSD usually maps my memory as > >/kernel: real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) >/kernel: avail memory = 62775296 (6134K bytes) > >But on that occasion it mapped it as > >/kernel: real memory = 9568256 (9344K bytes) >/kernel: avail memory = 7258112 (7088K bytes) > >My memory is 64M, and in the BIOS setup I have set the OS to non >PNP. Motherboard is Intel SE440BX-2. BIOS is Phoenix 4, release 6. > > >Thank you for your replies. > >-Alex > >Note: I am not subscribed to the list. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message