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Date:   Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:42:05 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To:     "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 03:25:51PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> The results so far are:
> 
> 1. Desktop with MSI Z87I board: works.
> 2. Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop: works.
> 3. Server based on the Intel Corporation S1200SPL board (available from OVH
> as EG-32): does not work, memory is cleared.
> 4. Cheap server based on Gooxi G1SCN-B board (the cheapes thing with IPMI
> available on bacloud.com): works.
> 
> So that's 75% of success stories (found at least one page that is preserved
> after the "reboot" command) based on my samples.

That's pretty good! I didn't have this luck each time I tried this in
the past :-/ I remember noticing that video RAM from graphics card was
often usable however, which I figured I could use after seeing a ghost
image from a previous boot when switching to graphics mode.

Willy