From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:56:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0c4823df6a7668885896c6acb5e7635@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37d35879ea536afaa22cde6b7162f023@yyc.orthanc.ca>
On Tue Jan 12 22:39:27 EST 2010, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > From the inspections of Cinap and I, albeit a while back,
> > Erik's FS does not take NVR from floppy.
>
> So is it worth it to try to nail down a driver that can talk to at
> least some of the on-motherboard NVRAM present on today's crop of
> x86/amd64 motherboards?
>
> There is anecdotal evidence of past individual success. Even an
> experimental collection of these driver bits would be interesting to
> play with.
seems silly. there are megabytes of unused bios flash.
if you want to go to the effort, why not get a good chunk
of usuable space. unfortunately, i haven't had any success
getting a map.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-13 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 19:31 Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-12 22:39 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-12 22:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-12 22:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-01-13 8:56 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-13 12:56 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-01-13 6:29 Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-13 8:51 ` Akshat Kumar
2010-01-13 12:51 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-13 6:39 Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-13 12:31 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-13 12:44 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-13 13:54 Wolfgang Kunz
2010-01-13 15:27 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-13 13:56 Wolfgang Kunz
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