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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Black box flight recorder for Linux
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:17:39 +0200
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On Saturday 08 April 2006 16:05, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk> writes:
> >> Now, the question I have is, if I write values to RAM, do any of those
> >> values survive a reset?
> >
> > They don't generally.
> >
> > Some people used to write the oopses into video memory, but that
> > is not portable.
>
> I wouldn't think most BIOSes these days would bother to clear system RAM
> on a reboot. Certainly Microsoft was encouraging vendors not to do this
> because it slowed down system boot time.to

Reset button is like a cold boot and it generally ends up with cleared 
RAM.

-Andi