Re: My spin on the flash bios interface...
Steve Logue (slogue@acm.org)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 19:12:13 +0000
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> writes:
> > I would still consider cat>/dev/hda worse.
> > A BIOS chip is easily reprogrammed. Data that is gone, is gone.
>
> I know that if my BIOS gets destroyed it'd take me a while to figure out how I
> can get my machine back. On the other hand, if my harddisk gets wiped, I just
> reboot from floppy and restore from tape. Should I backup my BIOS too ?
>
> Stefan
Whats the problem with this? Backup to floppy along with a flasher.
Next setup cron to "dd if=/dev/bios of=/boot/bios.bak" with an
appropriate periodicity.
-STEVEl
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