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Date:      Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:13:45 +0400
From:      Andrey Zonov <andrey@zonov.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?xYF1a2FzeiBLdXJlaw==?= <kamikadze29@o2.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: backup BIOS settings
Message-ID:  <4F32D779.60209@zonov.org>
In-Reply-To: <192396d2.4ca0430d.4f0baa06.40411@o2.pl>
References:  <192396d2.4ca0430d.4f0baa06.40411@o2.pl>

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On 10.01.2012 7:01, Ɓukasz Kurek wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible to backup BIOS settings (CMOS configuration) to file and restore this settings on the other machine (the same hardware configuration and the same BIOS)?
>
> I try do it for this way:
>
> kldload nvram
>
> dd if=/dev/nvram of=nvram.bin   (backup)
>
> dd if=nvram.bin of=/dev/nvram   (restore)
>
>
> but this way always load default BIOS settings, not my (probably there is some kind of error).

Try sysutils/nvramtool instead.

-- 
Andrey Zonov



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