[syslinux] giving as many details as possible about a system

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Fri Sep 19 11:39:05 PDT 2008


On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Geert Stappers wrote:
>>
>> I remember vaguely something about DMI
>>  ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Management_Interface )
>> but contains it the requested details?
>> And if so, which tool to use?
>
> "dmidecode" gives you that information.
>
> "dmidecode" and "lspci" makes a good combo.  Adding /proc/cpuinfo
> doesn't hurt, of course.  I'm thinking of doing a preboot info
> collector, "boot this and send me the file that it writes to your USB
> stick", but I don't know when I'll have time ;)

That would be ubercool :)

-- 
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]




More information about the Syslinux mailing list