INTELVBTTOOL(8)

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version 25.09 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 intelvbttool(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to intelvbttool — it lives in the System Administration Utilities section of the manual, and it is exactly what it sounds like: a little parser for the VBT hiding inside your VGA BIOS. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

intelvbttool — parse VBT from VGA BIOS

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

intelvbttool --<SOURCECMD> [filename] --<DESTCMD> [filename]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Parse VBT from VGA BIOS. that's the whole vibe, fr fr — you point it at a VBT somewhere, and you point it at somewhere to put the VBT. main character energy for a tiny utility 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h, --help — prints the help, classic.

👑 SOURCECMD

Set the VBT source. Supports:

  • --inlegacy — pulls the VBT from the legacy BIOS area at physical memory 0xc0000. old school, iconic.
  • --invbt <path> — reads a raw Intel VBT file. just hand it the path, no drama.
  • --inoprom — reads the VBT from an Intel Option ROM file from <path>. (the path comes from the [filename] in the synopsis, bestie, it's right there ✨)

🧚 DESTCMD

Set the VBT destination. Supports:

  • --outdump — prints the VBT in human readable form. your eyeballs will thank you 👀
  • --outvbt <path> — writes a raw Intel VBT file out to <path>.
  • --patchoprom <path> — patches an existing Intel Option ROM at <path>. careful out there, you're editing a real file now 🔥

💜 AUTHORS 💜

  • coresystems GmbH.
  • Man page written by Ahmad Khalifa.

okay and for the cute sign-off: this page is from November 2024, and yeah — it's INTELVBTTOOL(8) through and through, the same one you'd find sitting in the System Administration Utilities section. go parse something, bestie 💖✨

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