/dev/nvram, while no doubt it works, is broken, at least on my Digital
Celebris P133.
I tried to cat a string into the device (after compiling a new kernel
with support for it, of course), and I could read it back. Great, I
though. But when I rebooted, POST failed, the BIOS drive setup were
horribly messed up, and suddenly I had a BIOS password.
Apparently, /dev/nvram overwrites important BIOS configurations, surely,
this isn't intended?
I'll try to make a note of what BIOS the machine has, but I can't boot
it at the moment. Drop me a mail if you really have to know.
-kzm
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