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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:36:53 +0000
From: Nigel Roles <nigel@9fs.org>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
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Jason Gurtz wrote:

>On 30-Nov-04 02:58, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
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>>I couldn't find any free NVRAM in a stock PC when I last looked.
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>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.
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>Of course all this isn't standardized  :/
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>~Jason
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It's not nvram, it's part of the BIOS flash. I don't think I'd like to 
reprogram my BIOS every time....