> > Is there any easy way to read the contents of a system BIOS from userland? > > No. Most modern BIOS code is paged, compressed and in some cases > encrypted. > > > bios(9) seems to have some very specific kernel-related BIOS routines, but > > nothing generic. I'm trying to write a program that will dump the BIOS > > image to stdout so that I can use strings(1) to sniff out version strings > > and other textual data on systems that can't be rebooted and/or easily > > reached. > > If this is all that you want, you can just open /dev/mem and read the > section between 0xe0000 and 0xfffff, much of this information is in there.
Duh! I knew there was a simple way! This will suffice for my purposes. Thanks! -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
