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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:56:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Ken Fileserver problem
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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