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From: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" <amora@zoom.es>
To: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:33:07 +0000
Subject: Re: Saving configuration changes at boot time
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> > Where is recorded the changes in the hardware configuration made at 
> > boot time (I mean devices to be probed, changes in I/O addresses,
> > etc)?
> 
> The boot messages are put into the system log and are viewable by running
> `dmesg'. 

Right.

> The settings themselves are stored into the kernel.

That's what I was asking for. I guessed it could be so, since configuration
changes seem to be private to the kernel you are booting with, but I was
not really sure.

Thank you, Doug.

Jesus.
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