Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 18:45:44 -0500 From: Alan Weber <aauu@ccms.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BIOS basemem != RTC basemem Message-ID: <35F31EA7.D2DDF8C@ccms.net> References: <Pine.SGI.4.02.9809070912480.1730-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: > 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 Some BIOSes use the top 1k for additional data storage. You may find a setting to disable this usage in the BIOS setup. I assume that FreeBSD does not use the BIOS past early boot up and all DOS memory in the lower 640k is replaced with stuff relevant to FreeBSD. You will be short 1k, which on a modern machine with >16 megs is not noticable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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