From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 06:31:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACF316A4CE for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:31:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.tele-kom.ru (mx.tele-kom.ru [213.80.148.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D34043D2D for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:31:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doublef@tele-kom.ru) Received: (qmail 50582 invoked by uid 555); 16 Feb 2004 17:31:10 +0300 Received: from hal.localdomain (213.80.149.190) by t-k.ru with TeleMail/2 id 1076941869-50568 for freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org; Mon, 16 Feb 17:31:09 2004 +0300 (MSK) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:33:47 +0300 From: Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040216173347.03c39e26@Hal.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <44fzdbf735.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <402D9175.5080300@users.sourceforge.net> <44fzdbf735.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z" Subject: Re: How to view BIOS settings on a running system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:31:13 -0000 --Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 16 Feb 2004 09:10:38 -0500 Lowell Gilbert probably wrote: > Rob writes: > > > A few times I have seen answers to problems like: > > > > "Verify this-and-this in your BIOS setting" > > > > The only way to do this, that I know of, is to shutdown the system > > and hit the DEL-key at boot up etc. But this is a bit silly, for > > just checking a particular setting of the BIOS. > > Not if the setting could indicate an important issue with booting the > system, which is usually the case for such questions. > > > Isn't there a tool in FreeBSD that shows the BIOS settings in a > > similar layout, without shutting down the system? > Theoretically, it's possible to write a program to open /dev/io and then use the out* functions (see include/machine/cpufunc.h) to write to port 0x70, read from port 0x71 to obtain the CMOS values (hard disk type, RTC,...). That's rude, but if you happen to *really* need it... -- DoubleF Trying to establish voice contact ... please yell into keyboard. --Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAMNTXwo7hT/9lVdwRArNvAJ917T+Io6ymD6fm8/XD/WC6b085/ACfWr40 UKxFBUWMyCqZUm/w6FaH52Q= =pzdi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__16_Feb_2004_17_33_47_+0300_Hosa2FU+fm5umN.z--