Re: Rewrite bios through port serial

pahm wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> It is possible to rewrite the chip bios , with Win XP, with Electronic
> card, attacched to serial port, or parallel or Usb port?
>
When my copy of Slackware 11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 boots, it loads its
own BIOS and bypasses the ROM entirely.

Cheers!
Rich

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:27 -0700, Rich Grise <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>pahm wrote:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> It is possible to rewrite the chip bios , with Win XP, with Electronic
>> card, attacched to serial port, or parallel or Usb port?
>>
>When my copy of Slackware 11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 boots, it loads its
>own BIOS and bypasses the ROM entirely.

What boots Slackware?

(E-Mail Removed)zzzzzzzz wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:27 -0700, Rich Grise <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>
>>pahm wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all
>>>
>>>It is possible to rewrite the chip bios , with Win XP, with Electronic
>>>card, attacched to serial port, or parallel or Usb port?
>>>
>>
>>When my copy of Slackware 11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 boots, it loads its
>>own BIOS and bypasses the ROM entirely.
>
>
> What boots Slackware?
details, details.

jamie

(E-Mail Removed)zzzzzzzz wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:27 -0700, Rich Grise <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>pahm wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> It is possible to rewrite the chip bios , with Win XP, with Electronic
>>> card, attacched to serial port, or parallel or Usb port?
>>>
>>When my copy of Slackware 11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 boots, it loads its
>>own BIOS and bypasses the ROM entirely.
>
> What boots Slackware?

From a cold boot, the ROM BIOS reads the boot sector of the floppy,
the CD, or the HD. That points to LILO, the Linux Loader, which gives
me the option to boot Slack or Windoze. If I pick Windoze, then LILO
passes control to the windows loader, and if I pick Slackware, then
LILO goes ahead and starts the Slack boot procedure on the drive. The
first thing that the loader does is read the new BIOS, and reports the
data check, and then runs init, and so on.

A quick google turned this up - they can probably explain it better
than I can:
http://oldfield.wattle.id.au/luv/boot.html

Hope This Helps!
Rich

(E-Mail Removed)zzzzzzzz wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:27 -0700, Rich Grise <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>pahm wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> It is possible to rewrite the chip bios , with Win XP, with Electronic
>>> card, attacched to serial port, or parallel or Usb port?
>>>
>>When my copy of Slackware 11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 boots, it loads its
>>own BIOS and bypasses the ROM entirely.
>
> What boots Slackware?

Or, the gag answer, of course, is "the reset button" ;-)

Cheers!

On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:12:41 -0700, Rich Grise <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:04:27 -0700, Rich Grise <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>>pahm wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> It is possible to rewrite the chip bios , with Win XP, with Electronic
>>>> card, attacched to serial port, or parallel or Usb port?
>>>>
>>>When my copy of Slackware 11.0, kernel 2.4.33.3 boots, it loads its
>>>own BIOS and bypasses the ROM entirely.
>>
>> What boots Slackware?
>
>From a cold boot, the ROM BIOS reads the boot sector of the floppy,

A-HAH! It doesn't bypass the ROM entirely, now does it?

>the CD, or the HD. That points to LILO, the Linux Loader, which gives
>me the option to boot Slack or Windoze. If I pick Windoze, then LILO
>passes control to the windows loader, and if I pick Slackware, then
>LILO goes ahead and starts the Slack boot procedure on the drive. The
>first thing that the loader does is read the new BIOS, and reports the
>data check, and then runs init, and so on.
>
>A quick google turned this up - they can probably explain it better
>than I can:
>http://oldfield.wattle.id.au/luv/boot.html
>
No need. You admitted your mistake already.