saving an image of the BIOS?

From: Jules (julesrichardsonuk_at_remove.this.yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/24/05

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    Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:38:20 +0000

    I need to make a copy of the system BIOS on an old 486 machine (which is
    running Slackware 10). Is there an easy way to do this?

    I was hoping the BIOS might be exposed somewhere under /proc so that
    something like 'cat /proc/bios > biosimage.bin' would work :-)

    (My EPROM programmer refuses to read the BIOS that I want to copy as it
    won't handle reading from Flash EEPROM chips, but I suddenly thought I bet
    there's a way of doing it from the actual running machine)

    Any ideas?

    Jules

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