Obtaining BIOS and memory info?

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott R Ehrlich)]

Quoting gboyce <gboyce at badbelly.com>:

> 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.

The examples from nongnu look amazing.  Thanks!

Scott

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