Re: BIOS info: how to get it w/o rebooting the system ??

Pekka Pietik{inen (pp@netppl.fi)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:18:05 +0200

On Jan 19, 10:53am, Linux Lists wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed one thing: I can't get my BIOS brand and revision without
> having to reboot the system !!
Ok, so it's not pretty, but it does the job :)

connecting (root):/home/pp >strings /dev/mem | grep BIOS
ASUS P2L97-S ACPI BIOS Revision 1001
Award SoftwareIBM COMPATIBLE 486 BIOS COPYRIGHT Award Software Inc.oftware
Inc. Aw
Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
twaNASUS P2L97-S ACPI BIOS Revision 1001

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Pekka Pietikainen, Net People Ltd., Oulu, Finland






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