[flashrom] Preserve BIOS settings for copying flash between identical machines

[Idwer Vollering]

2013/8/16 Clayton Falzone <clayton.falzone at gmail.com>

> After a successful flash on the next boot the firmware resorts to default
> config. Is there some way around this? It would be a useful feature to
> preserve settings between boots.
>

First: flashrom does not touch CMOS settings (nvram).
However, there is an utility called nvramtool:
http://www.coreboot.org/Nvramtool


>
> For example, reading the FLASHROM to a file...
> $ sudo flashrom -r bios_backup.bin -p internal
> And then writing the bios to an identical but physically different machine
> $ sudo flashrom -w bios_backup.bin -p internal
>
> It would be quite a feature to preserve settings to this new machine. Is
> this possible?
>

What's the name/type of the machine(s) you're using?


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