Re: [dmidecode] My first question...

[Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo]

>On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 11:19 +0200, Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using the dmidecode tool to read the bios info from my system, and I 
>> would like to know
>> if is there some way to detect in linux when some change is made from in 
>> bios when the system
>> boots.
 > dmidecode is definitely not a tool to detect whether something has
>changed in bios settings or not, you can use it to detect hardware
>configuration changes or the BIOS firmware update itself.
>
>  I don't think it's possible to detect a BIOS settings changes
>reliably, unless the change touches some chipset capability and can be
>noticed in procfs...
>
>  Why do you need this? What are you trying to solve?

Thanks for your answer!

Well, I'm trying to implement some mechanism to do a md5 for the bios in order
to detect if the bios has been modified. I was thinking to do the md5 to the 
binary
file with the state of the bios configuration and detect from boot to boot if 
this md5
changes...

Any alternative way is welcome :)

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