From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 27 12:11:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17453 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA17440 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:10:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA00493; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:10:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:10:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Kenneth R. Westerback" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost boot up (pre DMESG) messages - BIOS mem ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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