Querying bios settings from Linux

mark prgrmr at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 10:36:36 EDT 2008


You can try dmidecode:

http://linux.die.net/man/8/dmidecode

--
mark

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know a way to query BIOS settings from the command line in
> Linux?  I need to find out if the SATA settings are set to IDE or AHCI
> on 100+ systems.  It will really suck if I have to connect a console
> to each one and reboot into the BIOS...
>
> I don't care if I can't change it, actually, that might be scary :)
>
> dmidecode doesn't seem to give me this depth of information either
> (though it does tell me an awful lot of useful information).
>
> And, sadly, I don't have IPMI cards in the machines...
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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