Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware
On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, John.
>
> It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only with
> tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine in the
> first place, that I have forgotten / no knowledge of how this may be
> achieved.
> In any case, I was always under the impression that BIOS resided in ROM
> (Read Only Memory) hardware, which required removing chips and re-buring
> them with ROM burner hardware. Maybe things have changed since I was
> last in that world, but to my knowledge the BIOS setting that we can
> tinker with, are stored in some sort of FLASH memory or similar, which
> is indeed writeable, and maintained by the on board battery.
>
> But, as I say, all this is from many years ago and maybe things have
> changed.
>
> But I would like to at least have some backup way out if 'the evil
> empire' did actually achieve that draconian, monopolistic goal.
>
> Regards
>
> Alex
>
>
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