Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:48:24 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: BIOS Name Strings? (Help!) |
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Hi!
> I would really like to do this. Although the problem can be solved by > not compiling in PCI, that is not an option for distributions in all > cases. Detection of faulty BIOSes (especially faulty ones that have > easily fixed problems that can't be ignore) would be a nice feature, in > my opinion. My only problem is that I don't know how to get the BIOS > name string and version number with which to make a compare against and > know of no other way to detect it. > > Can someone please help me? I'm sure there's a simple solution. Well, I > *hope* there's a simple solution. :)
What about checksumming whole bios?
Pavel
-- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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