From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:34:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:34:27 -0500 Received: from venus.it.swin.edu.au ([136.186.2.21]:9994 "EHLO venus.it.swin.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:34:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6252FE.B619EE8A@it.swin.edu.au> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:31:43 +1000 From: John Newbigin Reply-To: jn@it.swin.edu.au Organization: Swinburne University of Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: binary garbage in dmesg/boot messages (2.4.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With kernel 2.4.0 on a Compaq DL380 I get the following. All seems OK except for the Version string. I have not checked the serial number but I looks acceptable. I do not know what the correct version string should be either. Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: DMI 2.3 present. Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: 25 structures occupying 842 bytes. Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: DMI table at 0x000FF066. Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: BIOS Vendor: Compaq Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: BIOS Version: P17 Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: BIOS Release: 12/13/1999 Jan 11 17:11:37 cartman kernel: System Vendor: Compaq. Jan 11 17:11:38 cartman kernel: Product Name: ProLiant DL380. Jan 11 17:11:38 cartman kernel: Version ^Cu^IP¸^E¿³^AÍ^PXö^F^X. Jan 11 17:11:38 cartman kernel: Serial Number H030FD419124 . John. -- Information Technology Innovation Group Swinburne University. Melbourne, Australia http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/