[syslinux] Syslinux using Asset Tag (from Dell or Compay) instead of MAC Adress

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:

> Is there a spec for obtaining the value of this asset tag?

(I think the original poster meant "service tag".  Dell uses the term
"asset tag" to mean something else.)

There is no spec that I know of.

However, there is the asset.com utility
(ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/utility/asset.com); perhaps someone could
disassemble it.

But it may not even work on modern Dells, where the service tag
appears as the "Serial Number" fields of both the System Information
Block (DMI type 1) and the Chassis Information Block (DMI type 3) in
the SMBIOS structure.

All you need is an SMBIOS decoder for COMBOOT.  Maybe somebody could
port dmidecode (http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/).  Actually, this
might make a really cool COMBOOT example :-).

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