Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: BIOS info: how to get it w/o rebooting the system ?? | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:13:43 +0100 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.990119104903.25288A-100000@main.cyclades.com> you wrote: > I thought this was impossible for the kernel to provide, but ... Windows > NT does the trick (NT Diagnostics). Thus ... my question is: is there, > currently, a way to get this info from the kernel w/o rebooting the > system? If not, don't you guys think it's a useful implementation ??
AFAIK te boot loader stores some BIOS information (like the harddisk table) in memory before switching to the protected mode. I guess NT is doing the same thing. But you are right BIOS and VGA Bios Strings are 'nice to have[tm]' sometimes.
Not sure about the bios32 extensions. There have been kernel patches to get to the realmode bios.
Greetings Bernd
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