CentOS Linux Server Guide

CentOS Linux system information - Boot Up information

dmesg

command used to display to CentOS Linux bootup messages.
the boot iformation is stored at /var/log/messages
the information recorded include hardware and kernel boot-up information

Synopsis

dmesg

# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.9-42.ELsmp (buildcentos@build-i386) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6
-3)) #1 SMP Sat Aug 12 09:39:11 CDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ca000 - 00000000000cc000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 00000000000e4000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fef0000 - 000000001feff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001feff000 - 000000001ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ff00000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
512MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f69b0
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1

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