Hi there,

I'm trying to set my Fedora 11 LiveUSB for automatic backup and recovery of ThinkPad T61p's. Part of the task is CMOS settings transition from a donor machine.

I've tried the following options:

- cmospwd /w test.bck => cmospwd /r test.bck
Didn't work, no errors reported, it just didn't override "Quick boot" flag changed after CMOS has been recorded.

- Lenovo 's srcmos 4.01 under DOSBox (well, just for fun basically)
Program returns an error "2 This system is not supported by this program" while documentation states opposite.

Laptop's BIOS version is 2.24 (7LETC4WW) - Phoenix.

Are there any other options available?

So, the problem was easy to solve. udev maps CMOS to /dev/nvram, so simple dd command works both for backup and recovery.

Okay so 'dd' will catch all of the bits...

Is there any utility that will format those bits into something human readable?
(grinning) Please don't suggest 'od' or other raw-bit or raw-byte display.
I'm hoping there is something like XML or other "fields" with "meaningful"
data labels or similar.

Merci d'avance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Yes, there's one called <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd">CMOSpwd</a>. Actually, dd screws CMOS up, so I used that one eventually. It can also dump CMOS if used with flag /d.

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Great!!

BTW -- there is a "url" and "/url" tag to bracket web links within an LQ post.

"url=webLink"label"/url" ..... except use square brackets not double-quotes
"url"weblink"/url"

CMOSpwd

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd CMOSpwd

Cheers,
~~~ 0;-Dan