From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 09:55:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26563 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26547 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:55:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@washington.edu) Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (root@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id JAA33600; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:55:34 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id JAA21106; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:53:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Bobb Shires cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Disturbing line in dmesg In-Reply-To: <199809071633.QAA32220@out5.ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bobb Shires wrote: >The last line of my dmesg reads: > >Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround > >Any ideas what this means? Thanks! It means Intel hardware has a bug and that FreeBSD installs a workaround that prevents the bug from crashing the machine. This is a good message, not a bad one. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message