Dell BIOS curiosity - no resolution Just curious why the Dell BIOS is so much trouble. As I'm sure you know it is a Phoenix creation. What does Dell do that is so different from the norm?
Bioses usually consist of compressed modules (a few are uncompressed). To mod a bios you have to extract some modules, edit (uncompressed) and replace or add new ones. Phoenix bioses can be opened with Phoenix bios editor. Therefore it has a special format. As AMI and Award bioses have their special formats to be opened with Mmtool or Cbrom. In older Ami bioses e.g. you will find another module structure (ACPI table is module F0, fragmented) and you have to use amibcp75 to open it. The main problem is that there is no tool available to open Dell bioses directly. It´s probably a integrated Phoenix bios. You have to analyze the structure, find known headers or typical strings and figure out how to make a editable binary. Therefore you need to seperate it into parts, or extract special parts of the bios. After modifying you have to rebuild original Bios structure. This is already understood at Intel (AMI) bioses. Yen