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Re: grub-dumpbios
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Stefan Reinauer |
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Re: grub-dumpbios |
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Mon, 04 May 2009 22:28:52 +0200 |
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On 04.05.2009 21:27 Uhr, Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands?
>
> dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1
> dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}int10.bin bs=4 skip=16 count=1
>
> Sounds like user will need to read some documentation in order to figure
> out what grub-dumpbios is good for, and what to do with those files, so
> why not just document the commands there instead? (e.g. in the wiki or
> so)
>
>
As a side note: On many machines dumping the VGA option rom like that
does not produce good option rom images. Many option roms are
self-modifying and the above method only dumps the modified variants of
the ROMs that are normally not good for "POSTing" a graphics card
anymore. They're still good for other purposes though I guess.
Stefan
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- grub-dumpbios, Robert Millan, 2009/05/04
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Bean, 2009/05/04
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Robert Millan, 2009/05/04
- Re: grub-dumpbios, step21, 2009/05/04
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Bean, 2009/05/05
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Peter Cros, 2009/05/05
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/05/05
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/05/05
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Peter Cros, 2009/05/05
- Re: grub-dumpbios, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/05/05
Re: grub-dumpbios,
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