Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 17:45:49 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with 950210-SNAP Message-ID: <199503040145.RAA00347@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 95 16:02:00 MST." <9503032302.AA06483@cs.weber.edu>
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>> > > 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... > >I know. If you look in the system initialization code, you'll see >that this was patch one (by me) to 386BSD 0.1, at least in the >patchkit patch order. Nope. How long has it been since you looked at the code in FreeBSD? Too long I would say. >The problem is that he says that the amount reported is different >between the 2.0-RELEASE and the current snap. That's because we just added the message when the bootinfo structure support was added a month or two ago. -DG
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