Re: My spin on the flash bios interface...

Linux-Kernel Mail Account (kernel@whitestar.soark.net)
Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:57:54 -0500 (EST)


Great, fine, just one little question, how do I boot to the floppy? If we
could hotswap the BIOS it might be possable for some but without a
burner of your very own...

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Steve Logue wrote:

> 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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