From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Mar 3 14:28:58 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA04855 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:28:58 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA04838 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:28:33 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA07574; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:25:16 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id XAA27823 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:25:16 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA01119 for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:25:02 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503032225.XAA01119@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Problems with 950210-SNAP To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 23:25:01 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9503031637.AA04732@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 3, 95 09:37:54 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 741 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 1. BIOS memory reduced by 1K to 639K causing warning message, > > machine report 640K BIOS memory using the 2.0-RELEASE version > If your CMOS value has changes, I seriously consider testing to > see if you have an MBR virus or have rewritten your MBR. No Terry, this is simply caused by the fact that some BIOSes tend to steal 1 KB off the base memory to put their ``hard disk parameter table'' there. So when you ask the BIOS about base memory, they tell ya 639 K. AMI gave you the choice between the stolen kilobyte and placing the table on BIOS stack... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)