Best way to read contents of a bios in linux

Question

Hey Guys

An odd question really. Is it possible to read the entire contents of the bios chip in. We have a problem where we need to verify the contents of the bios chip?

Cheers James

Answer 1

Have you read this ?

Is there any easy way to read the contents of a system BIOS from userland?

No. Most modern BIOS code is paged, compressed and in some cases encrypted.

Answer 2

you can try dmidecode or biosdecode if you have them.