From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davej@suse.de
Subject: Re: sysctl interface to bootflags?
Date: 08 Oct 2001 22:56:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1002596188.5283.17.camel@thanatos> (raw)
Well, it may run, but what it changed was NOT the SBF field.
When I restarted my machine the BIOS beeped and told me
there was an error in the nonvolatile RAM. I was made to
reset the system date, and then the computer rebooted
normally.
--
Thomas
> Thanks. I tested the new sbf.c and after hacking it a
> bit to remove the fail-on-invalid-reg-value, it runs:
>
> root@thanatos:/home/jdthood/src/sbf# ./a.out
> BOOT @ 0x07fd0040
> CMOS register: 0x33
> Read current value := 0x88
> Read updated value := 0x89
>
> Here it has set bit 0, the PnP-OS bit. Do you have any
> plans to enhance the program to allow control of all the flags?
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-09 2:56 Thomas Hood [this message]
2001-10-10 6:46 ` sysctl interface to bootflags? Dave Jones
2001-10-10 12:37 ` Thomas Hood
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2001-10-09 3:29 Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 14:01 Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 14:15 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 15:21 ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 15:34 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 15:50 ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 15:52 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 15:56 ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 16:53 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-09 14:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 15:35 ` Thomas Hood
2001-10-09 22:48 Thomas Hood
2001-10-10 14:05 ` Dave Jones
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