--- David Hendricks <dhendrix(a)google.com> schrieb am Mi, 24.11.2010:
> The "00:19:66:97:d7:e2" you're seeing can be encoded in numerous ways and
> probably omits the ':' character. It may also be in a compressed portion
> of the image.
... actually, I already know the position, where the bios stores the MAC address. Unfortunately, it does not work to just change the address in the bios image and write the changed image back:
- In the image file that is provided by the vendor, these bytes
just contain ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (without ":")
- When I flash the bios using the AMI tool, reboot and then compare
the actual bios contents with the file, those bytes have been overwritten
with the machine's MAC address (+ many other changes)
- When I flash the same image using flashroom, the MAC address is sometimes
unchanged, sometimes changed to 00:19:66:97:d7:e2; in any case, the
corresponding position in the bios also contains the MAC address again.
- My attempts to change the MAC address on file and then flash it always
ended with "00:19:66:97:d7:e2", no matter which address I used
- When I take a complete bios image from another machine and flash it,
the machine gets the MAC address from the machine the bios image
originally came from