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Article #1156Re: Reading BIOS on PC under UNIX ??
From: Dave Levenson
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 04:16
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 04:16
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In article <2758@laura.UUCP>, lengewit@ludger.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Peter Lengewitz) writes:
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> Does someone know if and how it is possible to access the contents of
> the BIOS of a PC'386 via C program under UNIX (Interactive UNIX and
> SCO UNIX)?
I haven't tried this, but I would expect that you could look at the
special file /dev/mem arount location 0xf0000 or so. The program
which does this needs to be executed by root, or be set-uid root.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!westmark!dave From: dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Reading BIOS on PC under UNIX ?? Message-ID: <1387@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> Date: 2 Nov 90 04:16:18 GMT References: <2758@laura.UUCP> Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 16