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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:03:26 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting systems with lots of memory 
Message-ID:  <199903292003.MAA00525@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:18:47 %2B0100." <14079.46583.208347.306328@chiark.greenend.org.uk> 

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> I did, yes. Most of that is now in the loader(8) manual. I tried
> changing /boot.config to contain "/boot/loader -h" which improved
> matters. There's still some garbage but it's fine after ">> FreeBSD
> BOOT @ 0x10000: 634/15360 k of memory, serial console". We suspect a
> BIOS that's being too damn clever for its own good.

That sounds about right.  If your BIOS on the Intel box is set for a
serial console, you could try poking it again to make sure that it's set
for 9600 bps and that the various 'magic' options relating to remote 
health monitoring are all off.

I'd fire the one here up to be more specific, but it trips the breaker 
on this row of offices...


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