CDROM Boot Image insanity (how to get BIOS info)

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> 
> Don't know a way to get BIOS version with a Linux command,

'dmidecode' may be of help here.  If a table which it reads exist
(most likely this is the case) then you will see on your screen,
among gobs of other information, things like that:

        BIOS Information Block
                Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
                Version: R01-A0R        
                Release: 01/29/2003
                BIOS base: 0xE2970
                ROM size: 448K
                Capabilities:
                        Flags: 0x000000070000DF90

whch may be more than what is displayed during a boot.  What
"Flags" actually tell you I do not know. :-)

'dmidecode' is included in 'kernel-utils' package.

  Michal