On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply, John. > > It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only with > tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine in the > first place, that I have forgotten / no knowledge of how this may be > achieved. > In any case, I was always under the impression that BIOS resided in ROM > (Read Only Memory) hardware, which required removing chips and re-buring > them with ROM burner hardware. Maybe things have changed since I was > last in that world, but to my knowledge the BIOS setting that we can > tinker with, are stored in some sort of FLASH memory or similar, which > is indeed writeable, and maintained by the on board battery. > > But, as I say, all this is from many years ago and maybe things have > changed. > > But I would like to at least have some backup way out if 'the evil > empire' did actually achieve that draconian, monopolistic goal. > > Regards > > Alex > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard.
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