On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:09:15PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > * Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070302 22:47]: > > OK, I've used flashrom/biossavior on a Tyan box to get the *actual* contents > > of the chip (I hope!). > > > > I didn't notice that change in 0000fd94 in the previous diffs, so it's > > basically the same phenomenon as with flashrom on the gigabyte machine > > itself > > - 3 bytes change between boots. > > Between _every_ boot?
>From limited observation so far (3 or 4 boots), yes. > How do the bytes change every time in 5 boots? Are > bytes just increasing? > > > So.... are flashrom and Q-flash doing the right thing (disabling shadowing), > > and if so, what's causing those 3 bytes to be different each time? > > Yes, shadow handling seems to work fine. The BIOS has _some_ reason to > change it's config (which is far bigger than the 256 bytes of nvram > nowadays, --> ESCD/DMI) > > Have you changed the configuration of the machine? (Enable/Disable > Floppy, ...?) I have not changed anything after enabling the floppy - and 3 bytes change every boot, indeed. > Can you please observe the changes over several consequtive reboots (5 > or so) I will do that Monday or Tuesday, and report back. Thanks, Ward. -- Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
