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Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

From Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs
Date 2021-02-14 22:50 +0100
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:22:25 -0800
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:

> We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the
> machine it would get past the Grub screen, then sit there forever with
> a screen that was blank except for a blinking cursor.  It took about
> half a dozen tries before it finally continued the boot process from
> there.  I seem to recall that this happened last time we had a power
> outage too.  For now I think I'll just keep my backups current, and
> come the day it decides not to boot anymore I'll just replace it.

You might also look into an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). These
include surge protection. There are several daemons available in Debian
that support one or more UPS vendors, e.g. apcupsd.

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Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2021-02-14 21:40 +0100
  Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-02-14 22:50 +0100
  Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-15 09:20 +0100
    Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2021-02-16 17:20 +0100
  Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-02-15 13:30 +0100

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