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Subject: Re: backup BIOS settings
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On 10.01.2012 7:01, Łukasz 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.

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Andrey Zonov