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From: coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Unusual Boot Message
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 4 Jul 1995 16:08:45 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Message-ID: <3tchlt$rre@ice.cs.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: coatta@nsg.bc.ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: ice.cs.ubc.ca

Shortly after the FreeBSD kernel has loaded from disk, the following
message is printed on my screen:

   BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K)

Anyone know what this pithy little snippet means?

Terry Coatta
coatta@nsg.bc.ca

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Terry Coatta (coatta@cs.ubc.ca)