From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum.hack -> factotum and ... no more CMOS as nvram In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:03:37 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7ede1752-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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