fxtentacle Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 this allows you to dump your smbios and decode it to readable form. useful if you are toying with smbios enablers / patchers and wonder why certain programs notice you are on a hackintosh. run in a terminal: ./smbios-reader that will generate dump.bin ./dmidecode -i dump.bin that will show you all the info source included smbios_toolzip.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Interesting. Thanks! Could someone please run this on a real MacPro3,1 and post the output here? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1112096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Chief Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 This is something I was looking for; for people willing to test the latest version of Revolution [with: DSDT, SSDT and SMBIOS tables compiled into /boot]. Thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1431535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlvaio Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 where to place file? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1469789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 It doesn't matter, you can run it from anywhere you want. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1741252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolof Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Hi, I try this from the terminal on real mac. The terminal output : # dmidecode 2.9 /dev/mem: No such file or directory How can I get it to work. I am on 10.6.6 Thanks very much Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1751796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 You must be doing something wrong. Make sure you have a dump.bin as generated by smbios-reader before running dmidecode. You can try this instead, it is easier to use: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=266634 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1751800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolof Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 I would like to have dmidecode working because I want to use it with flashrom. I do not have a /dev/mem directory but I have an alias named dev in / When I go there on the terminal, there is no mem directory Could it be the problem ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1751805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 It will not work, and the problem is not with dmidecode. Due to OS architectural differences you can't use that function of flashrom on OS X, it's a leftover from the Linux or BSD versions or whatever. Flashrom is trying to have dmidecode read dmi data from /dev/mem which on Linux provides access to certain memory locations. On OS X there is no such thing, there is nothing there for dmidecode to read. You can't "fix" this. Google "what is /dev/mem/" for more information. Install Linux on your Mac, then it will work. If you want to get at your DMI data then follow the instructions in the first post or follow the link I posted and use the other app. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-1751829 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavaliercoder Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 dmidecode native port to OS X: http://cavaliercoder.com/blog/dmidecode-for-apple-osx.html No need to install linux or enable raw memory access via file handles 2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153582-smbios-dumper-and-matching-dmidecode/#findComment-2181029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts