Re: Hacking the BIOS to get my floppy back?

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On Thursday 5 February 2004 12:26 am, you wrote:
> First, it'd help to know what motherboard & BIOS version you're using, and
> if you're on the latest revision.

Hi Doug,
	Many thanks for the reply. The motherboard is an ASRock K7VT2 motherboard 
running the latest 1.30 AMI BIOS. There are no updates available higher than 
this number except a few "unofficial" overclocking hacked BIOS files.

> > My question is this: How does one go about hacking the ACPI in the BIOS?
>
> Yes; use acpidump to extract the DSDT, hack, recompile with iasl (in ports
> as acpica-tools or something like that), then use the dsdt_* loader.conf
> options to load it. The actual options are on the acpi(4) man page, under
> the section "OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE".

I can't believe I had to be told to look in the man pages! This is usually 
first port of call. Your mail gives me some very useful pointers so I will 
investigate these with interest.

> And actually, since Linux uses the same code drop, they may have the same
> problems, and fixes, that FreeBSD needs, particularly if they are patches
> to the DSDT.
>
> Check the archives for links on DSDT hacking.

Thanks very much, will do.

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Matt Dawson.
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