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Compression used for IBM BIOS images?

#27526 by inconel
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Compression used for IBM BIOS images?

#27526 by inconel
Sun Sep 19, 2004 9:45 am

Does anyone know what type of compression IBM uses for their distributed BIOS images? I'd like to separate all the chunks with Phoenix BIOS Editor, but I need to decompress the file first. This is the BIOS I'm interested in http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.ws ... us&lang=en
Thanks for any help you can give. :wink:

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#29325 by Borg Number One
Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:20 pm

I have the same problem too, but in future there will be an uncompressor.....

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#29639 by Borg Number One
Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:25 pm

You can try to dump / create an uncompressed backup of your BIOS:

http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopi ... 9558#29558

Then try to modify the backup with PhoenixBIOS-Editor....
You can send me the back up BIOS file too.

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#29642 by Sharedoc
Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:02 pm

http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/mbockelk/bios1351.zip

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#31260 by Borg Number One
Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:48 pm

Hi.
To uncompress IBM/Phoenix compressed BIOS files you can take:

"PHCOMP"

I did not know that it is part of the BNOBTC all the time.

It is also available from here:
http://bnobtc.pix-art.com/bnobtc-files/phoenix/

Just run:
phcomp /d <Phoenix BIOS file>

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#32703 by inconel
Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:40 pm

Borg Number One,

Thank you! That seems to work nicely.

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