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Firmware Test Suite - bios_info

The bios_info 'test' just gathers some pertinent BIOS DMI information to allow one to identify a machine. When running fwts and specifying no tests then this test is run very early to log the machine details in the output log, thus allowing one to keep track of the test against a specific machine.

Example output:

00013 bios_info       Gather BIOS DMI information.
00014 bios_info       ------------------------------------------------------------------
00015 bios_info       Test 1 of 1: Gather BIOS DMI information
00016 bios_info       BIOS Vendor       : LENOVO
00017 bios_info       BIOS Version      : 68ET27WW
00018 bios_info       BIOS Release Date : 11/14/2007
00019 bios_info       Board Name        : IEL10
00020 bios_info       Board Serial #    : 41R7640Z1ZDCX7BG5Z8             
00021 bios_info       Board Version     : REFERENCE
00022 bios_info       Board Asset Tag   : 
00023 bios_info       Chassis Serial #  : None
00024 bios_info       Chassis Type      : 10
00025 bios_info       Chassis Vendor    : No Enclosure
00026 bios_info       Chassis Version   : N/A
00027 bios_info       Chassic Asset Tag : No Asset Tag
00028 bios_info       Product Name      : 0769BMG
00029 bios_info       Product UUID      : F250BDA0-8E18-11DC-93A6-001B380C7F47
00030 bios_info       Product Version   : 3000 N200                       
00031 bios_info       System Vendor     : LENOVO
00032 bios_info       
00033 bios_info       ==================================================================
00034 bios_info       0 passed, 0 failed, 0 warnings, 0 aborted, 0 skipped, 1 info only.
00035 bios_info       ==================================================================

Examples:

sudo fwts bios_info -

..runs bios_info on your machine and dumps the output to stdout.