From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] the mysterious bios change
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:53:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558b5fd4f39a7820a67adedd78f94483@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53C11780-938A-4F11-B94A-032414483EA7@9srv.net>
On Mon Aug 19 12:25:33 EDT 2013, a@9srv.net wrote:
> Erik's explanation certainly makes sense, but here's an
> alternative possibility. In the past, I've set up the bios on
> a system a certain way, then accidentally written to
> #r/nvram (which isn't really useful on a PC), and had the
> bios reset to factory defaults. Behavior of the bios after
> writing that file is bios-dependent, but it's easy to test.
i happen to have that machine, and i have not seen that
behavior with any version of bios up to 1.2a.
perhaps we haven't written to #r/nvram.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-18 16:40 Skip Tavakkolian
2013-08-18 17:20 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-19 16:09 ` Anthony Sorace
2013-08-19 16:53 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2013-08-19 18:17 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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