> It absolutely *is* intended. The purpose of it is to read and possibly
> modify the BIOS settings in NVRAM. If you do stupid things while root
> (it *is* root-writeable-only, right?), Linux is not going to try to
> save you.
Right. I missed the "with some utility" part of the Configure.help, but
got the "data that is not lost at power-off" part. Thus I was under the
impression that the memory could be used for non-volatile storage.
> Messing about with things in /dev that you don't understand
Yes, yes.
> /dev/bios
> /dev/hda
> /boot/map
> /vmlinuz
> /sbin/init
> /lib/ld.so
Difference is, these have IMHO more meaningful names and more obvious
uses. I'd *expect* throwing garbage at /dev/bios to muck up the bios
settings.
> "reset the BIOS" jumper
Yep, I had to pull the jumper to clear the password, boot into BIOS, set
things up and reboot. No sweat, just unexpected.
I promise not to do it again. Thanks to all that pointed out the error
of my ways.
¨kzm
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