Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:33:47 +0300 From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to view BIOS settings on a running system? Message-ID: <20040216173347.03c39e26@Hal.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <44fzdbf735.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <402D9175.5080300@users.sourceforge.net> <44fzdbf735.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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--Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 16 Feb 2004 09:10:38 -0500 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> probably wrote: > Rob <nospam@users.sourceforge.net> writes: > > > A few times I have seen answers to problems like: > > > > "Verify this-and-this in your BIOS setting" > > > > The only way to do this, that I know of, is to shutdown the system > > and hit the DEL-key at boot up etc. But this is a bit silly, for > > just checking a particular setting of the BIOS. > > Not if the setting could indicate an important issue with booting the > system, which is usually the case for such questions. > > > Isn't there a tool in FreeBSD that shows the BIOS settings in a > > similar layout, without shutting down the system? > Theoretically, it's possible to write a program to open /dev/io and then use the out* functions (see include/machine/cpufunc.h) to write to port 0x70, read from port 0x71 to obtain the CMOS values (hard disk type, RTC,...). That's rude, but if you happen to *really* need it... -- DoubleF Trying to establish voice contact ... please yell into keyboard. --Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAMNTXwo7hT/9lVdwRArNvAJ917T+Io6ymD6fm8/XD/WC6b085/ACfWr40 UKxFBUWMyCqZUm/w6FaH52Q= =pzdi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z--
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