Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:10:20 -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.3.94.970327120935.354X-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970318075923.272A-100000@Pkrw.tcn.net>
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Kenneth R. Westerback wrote: > 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! RTC == CMOS Don't sweat it. I don't even think the first 1mb is used by the kernel because it's divided. 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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