Re: dmesg buffer preserved between reboots

2002-05-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 01), Ruslan Ermilov said: > One of my remote i386 machines preserves the dmesg buffer between > reboots, and others not. What features cause this buffer to be > preserved? I saw this on Alphas, and thought that this was caused If your BIOS zeros out memory as part of a

dmesg buffer preserved between reboots

2002-05-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
Hi! One of my remote i386 machines preserves the dmesg buffer between reboots, and others not. What features cause this buffer to be preserved? I saw this on Alphas, and thought that this was caused by the "soft" reboot, where (probably) memory contents is not destroyed. But I have never seen