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Bug#684516: Bug#683807: AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.



On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 10:47 +0200, asronchetti@libero.it wrote:
> Hi, 
> i've found this in a syslog on my debian stable installation /var/log 
> directory:
> 
> Aug 21 17:11:35 *** kernel: [    0.000000] AMI BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt 
> low RAM, working around it.
> 
> Could this message indicate the root of all these corruption/instability 
> problems?

Don't think so.

> And what could it mean? My bios is corrupted and it is also corrupting memory?

It's a known bug in many versions of the AMI BIOS code, but it only
affects specific areas of memory.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein

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