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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:35:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lost boot up (pre DMESG) messages - BIOS mem ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970317233454.1602O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970316113049.176A-100000@pinky.tcn.net>

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On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Kenneth R. Westerback wrote:

> On 2.1.7 (and I believe, from earlier experiments, 3.0 as well) there 
> are a few messages that flash past after booting is underway and 
> are not recoverable from any log I know of, dmesg, or scrolling back with 
> the scroll lock key sent.
> 
> In particular one catches my eye, something about BIOS memory 639K ....

This is saying something like

BIOS mem 639K != 640K 

or somesuch.  Completely and totally harmless.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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