Querying bios settings from Linux

Šarūnas sarunas at mail.saabnet.com
Tue Sep 30 11:01:25 EDT 2008


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Paul Lussier 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...
> 
Not access to BIOS perhaps, but something can be deduced by grepping
through the output of, e.g. lshw, hwinfo and dmesg as well.

Šarūnas

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