From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1M13pD-0007pj-Et for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:39 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M13pA-0007oo-V7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M13p4-0007lm-2i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:35 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47252 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M13p2-0007lh-QM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:28 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:33248) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M13p2-0001Mu-8s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:28 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M13bY-0000Z4-Dq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 21:13:32 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M13oz-00054w-DQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 May 2009 21:27:25 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:27:25 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20090504192725.GA19518@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: grub-dumpbios X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 19:27:37 -0000 Hi, Do we really need to ship a specific utility just to run two commands? dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}vbios.bin bs=65536 skip=12 count=1 dd if=/dev/mem of=${output_dir}int10.bin bs=4 skip=16 count=1 Sounds like user will need to read some documentation in order to figure out what grub-dumpbios is good for, and what to do with those files, so why not just document the commands there instead? (e.g. in the wiki or so) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."