In the last episode (Nov 25), Terry Lambert said: > Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > I don't think this is really possible. > > > > > > I went looking for a generic "application use" CMOS are for this > > > sort of thing a while back, and I was unable to find one. > > > > Well you should please take a look at the "fast boot" option of > > moderately modern BIOS-es. Somthing along those lines went right > > now in to the linux kernel. Seems pretty adequate to me, since you > > would be even able to controll it through the BIOS setup... > > Is there documentation available for this anywhere? The BIOS vendor > documentation, not the Linux source code.
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/specs/simp_bios.asp http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/specs/simp_boot.asp is the best I could find; you'll need a Word doc viewer. It's mainly geared toward detecting boot failure rather than abnormal shutdowns, though. What we need is a matching "Simple Shutdown Flag" variable. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
