UEFI or BIOS boot? - DllCall help.

[Stevnhoved]

Hi.

Thank you for a nice forum. It has often been a real lifesaver.

Now I have to figure out if a system is booted via UEFI or legacy BIOS.

I have found an example in Delpha that someone has rewritten in WinBach, which looks a lot like AutoIt.

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/DllCall~Information+Booted~UEFI~or~BIOS.txt

However, I cannot figure out to translate it to AutoIt. I think have not enough experience with the DllCall function.

Can anyone help me, or guide me in some direction?

Many thanks in advance: D 

 

Best Regards,

Martin Stevnhoved

 

[SmOke_N]

Untested:

Func _WinAPI_GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariable($sName, $sGUID)
    
    If Not StringLen($sName) Then
        ; variable cannot be null
        Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    EndIf
    
    Local $aRet = DllCall("Kernel32.dll", "dword", _
        "GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableW", "wstr", $sName, _
        "wstr", $sGUID, "wstr", "", "dword", 4096)
    
    If @error Or Not $aRet[0] Then
        Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    EndIf
    
    Return $aRet[3] ; pBuffer
EndFunc

[DavidKarner]

#include <WinAPI.au3>

MsgBox(0,_WinAPI_GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariable(),0)

Func _WinAPI_GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariable()

    Local $sName = ""
    Local $sGUID = "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}"

    Local $aRet = DllCall("Kernel32.dll", "dword", _
        "GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableW", "wstr", $sName, _
        "wstr", $sGUID, "wstr", "", "dword", 4096)

    ; ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION 1 (0x1)
    ; ERROR_NOACCESS 998 (0x3E6)
    Local $LastError = _WinAPI_GetLastError()

    If $LastError == 1 Then
        Return "Legacy"
    ElseIf $LastError == 998 Then
        Return "UEFI"
    Else
        Return "Unknown"
    EndIf

EndFunc