From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Cc: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum.hack -> factotum and ... no more CMOS as nvram
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:03:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311041102360.32465-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5fc626be2e3710701ce3d07f98cfbd0@plan9.bell-labs.com>
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David Presotto wrote:
> I used to use it for config info when I first started playing with
> PC's. I stopped because most of the BIOSes complained when I changed
> it, even when I used a part that they weren't using.
yes, you have to redo the checksum or they bioses get upset.
> ALso, there didn't seem to be any consistency in how the different
> BIOSes used the area except for the initial few bytes so I never knew
> what part was available to me.
yes.
> Is there any way to tell if its a Linux BIOS and only look then?
I can look for that. I'll try to see if there's a way to make that go.
For now, since I'm on deadline, I'm going to go with sdC0/nvram.
ron
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2003-11-04 18:03 ` ron minnich [this message]
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311040939110.32465-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>
2003-11-04 15:30 ` Russ Cox
2003-11-04 18:14 ` ron minnich
2003-11-04 5:17 ron minnich
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