Obtaining BIOS and memory info?

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Scott R Ehrlich wrote:

> Is there a Linux utility that can tell me the BIOS version of a motherboard?
>
> How about one that reports what memory slots contain what amount of memory, and
> the type of memory used in each slot?
>
> I have RH FC5, Ubuntu, and Debian machines on which the tool(s) would be most
> helpful.   It would obviously be strongly desired to not have to shut down and
> reboot said systems in order to gain at the least the BIOS version.

You can try dmidecode.  It provides a lot of useful information from the 
BIOS.  What information is provided varies a bit from system to system, so 
I'm not sure how much luck you'll have.

Additionally if you have ECC memory and a supported ECC controller, 
/proc/ram gives useful details about the various memory banks.

--
Greg