Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS messing with CMOS on reboot?

[yhlu]

should be second thing.

YH

On 12/3/05, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing a weird problem while switching back and forth between
> a legacy bios and LinuxBIOS.
>
> I have a 256 byte cmos image created with cmos_util and a 512k bios
> image for each firmware flavour.
>
> Switching from legacy bios to LinuxBIOS works fine using flashrom and
> cmos_util.
>
> Switching the other way round always leaves legacy bios with a wrong
> checksum on the first boot.
>
> writing the cmos from the file afterwards and rebooting is fine, so it's
> not the cmos image that is wrong.
>
> Could LinuxBIOS change the CMOS when doing a reboot?
>
> Or is legacy bios doing some very weird things like safing additional
> data in mystic places?
>
> Stefan