[ANNOUNCE] linuxbios utilities.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Wed Apr 9 19:20:00 CEST 2003


Alexander Amelkin <spirit at reactor.ru> writes:

> Hello Eric,
> 
> Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 11:34:26 PM, you wrote:
> 
> EWB> cmos_util which changes the few LinuxBIOS settings from Linux.
>
> Do we really use the CMOS already? What do we store there?

There are several other people who could have answered and 
this is a question of general interest so back to the list, with this.

I am frequently very busy so I do not appreciate LinuxBIOS mail
directed exclusively at me.

Yes.  For normal vs fallback.  For serial port baud rates,
for the boot order that etherboot should use.

Check out the appropriate cmos.layout files.

Eric




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