Brian Buhrow <buh...@nfbcal.org> wrote: > hello. I wonder if you've compared your BIOS settings on both > machines? While the BIOS may be the same version, it's possible the > settings are not identical. this is strongly suggested by the fact that > one of your machines shows a serial number in its machdep.dmi output, > while the other does not.
I double checked. Both machine report it, but the information is only shown to root. I must have run the sysctl command as an unprivilegied user on the slow machine. > Doing that comparison will be tedious, but I think worth it. Indeed; In an ideal world, there would be a way to get a MIB of BIOS settings. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz m...@netbsd.org