With Linux, you can use dd. But writing to your motherboard is very risky.
Wayne Sallee [email protected] On 08/24/2015 02:04 AM, Paul Rogers wrote:
In the past I've always had good luck keeping a Live Knoppix CD/DVD around for the inevitable virgin box I want to talk. Today I found a "new" version Knoppix-7.2 CD, burned it, booted it in this box to check. OK. A few hours later I booted my regular (B)LFS-7.2/POD-4.0, and the onboard NIC was gone. lspci didn't find it. Tried an older system that hasn't been played with. No NIC. Eventually I went under the covers and did a hard CMOS reset, and it magically reapeared. (Obviously) Back in the day I had DOS programs that could save/restore CMOS'. Is there anything like that for Linux? I've generally had Plug-n-Play OS enabled in the BIOS. Was that a mistake? I figured Linux would take control of the HW anyway. Is Debian/Knoppix a "bad actor" now?
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