From: Nigel Roles <nigel@9fs.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:36:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41ACA1A5.2030003@9fs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AC9FC0.3010807@tommyk.com>
Jason Gurtz wrote:
>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
>
>
>
It's not nvram, it's part of the BIOS flash. I don't think I'd like to
reprogram my BIOS every time....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 16:36 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
2004-11-30 16:36 ` Nigel Roles [this message]
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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