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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:04:13 -0500 (EST)
From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" <krw@tcn.net>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Lost boot up (pre DMESG) messages - BIOS mem ...
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Actually, I found I could read the messages when I was booting from floppy
(messages also there on 2.2) and I reconstruct them thusly:

  ... booting messages ...
  Uncompressing kernel
  Booting the kernel
  BIOS base mem (639K) != RTC base mem (640K), setting to BIOS value
  Copyright FreeBSD ...
  ... and rest of DMESG recoverable stuff ...

Do you know what RTC stands for?  Just curious about the hidden meaning in
this message. With 32M I guess I won't miss 1K, but I am curious about
where it goes!

---- Ken

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Doug White wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
>