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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Querying the bios from booted linux kernel?
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:13:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801041913.54030.gene.heskett@gmail.com> (raw)

Greetings;

Is there a utility that can query the motherboard bios and get a list of the 
drives it can see?

Likewise, for the bios extension contained on a pny sata card with a Silicon 
Image chipset on it?

I'm trying to cobble up a way for linux to boot from the drive on this sata 
card, so that the F8 install is completely separated from the FC6 install on 
a pata drive connected to the mainboard.

Thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Alea iacta est.
	[The die is cast]
		-- Gaius Julius Caesar

             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-05  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-05  0:13 Gene Heskett [this message]
2008-01-05  0:47 ` Querying the bios from booted linux kernel? H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-05  2:14   ` Alan Cox
2008-01-05  2:45     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-05  4:18 ` Matt Domsch
2008-01-05 19:47   ` H. Peter Anvin

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