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.
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