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 warmboot, you'll lose the
dmesg buffer. I've got docked laptops that don't seem to ever zero the
data, even on a power cycle.
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