From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 14:16:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28541 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 14:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28485 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 14:16:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03965; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:14:29 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:14:29 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jens Schweikhardt cc: fbsdq Subject: Re: BIOS basemem != RTC basemem In-Reply-To: <199809040818.KAA14290@obsidian.noc.dfn.de> 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 Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > when I boot my 2.2.7R system on my shiny new PC (Asus P2L97S, PII233) > one of the first lines printed is > > BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K), using BIOS value > > This appears even before the copyright message, so is not in dmesg output. > I'm worried who has snatched that kilobyte. How do I remedy the situation? > Is there something wrong with my Award BIOS version 1.32? I usually get this on machines with older BIOS, but it doesn't seem to affect them at all. Perhaps one of the hackers can explain it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Live your own life, for you will die your own death To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message