From: Jason Gurtz <jason@tommyk.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:28:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AC9FC0.3010807@tommyk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <286ea827434f4d0db748bfacf74715d9@collyer.net>
On 30-Nov-04 02:58, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> I couldn't find any free NVRAM in a stock PC when I last looked.
Some motherboards, Intel desktop boards in particular, support a boot
splash screen. Perhaps you could use that area to store stuff (after
making sure the bios is set to NOT display the splash screen!)
Or, maybe it would be really neat to hide data stenographicaly in an
actual splash screen. Off the top of my head the images are 640x480 at
256 colors. Not sure if they're compresses, there's a special tool they
have to use a bmp and put it in nvram.
Of course all this isn't standardized :/
~Jason
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 17:07 Steve Simon
2004-11-29 11:42 ` Matthias Teege
2004-11-29 12:05 ` geoff
2004-11-29 15:11 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-29 18:13 ` Steve Simon
2004-11-29 18:49 ` Sergey Reva
2004-11-30 7:58 ` geoff
2004-11-30 15:48 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 16:28 ` Jason Gurtz [this message]
2004-11-30 16:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-11-30 16:46 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 18:30 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 19:44 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 19:54 ` rog
2004-11-30 19:51 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 21:57 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 2:08 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-11-30 9:14 ` [9fans] usb storage (was Re: pxe - nvram) Richard Miller
2004-12-01 15:33 ` [9fans] pxe - nvram Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 16:03 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:18 ` Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 18:30 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:42 ` Jack Johnson
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