Re: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- To: Onno <Onno@Willem.Alexanderschool.nl>
- Cc: Samuel Tardieu <sam@debian.org>, Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>, "Huneycutt, Doug" <doug.huneycutt@lmco.com>, Johno Sullivan <johno@tornado.ie>, pb@enst.fr, quinot@enst.fr, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Anton Ivanov <aivanov@eu.level3.net>, Ruud de Rooij <ruud@ruud.org>
- Subject: Re: [POSSIBLE GRAVE SECURITY HOLD]
- From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 00:39:17 +1100
- Message-id: <38998505.3A918B62@cupid.suninternet.com>
- References: <2000-02-02-11-38-12+trackit+sam@debian.org> <3.0.6.32.20000202162941.008e7ac0@alexanderschool.nl>
Onno wrote:
>
> Samuel Tardieu and others wrote about letting lilo
> boot from floppy, I want to know:
>
> 1) HOW they did it?
> 2) Can you configure lilo.conf to boot from floppy?
> 2) HOW can I secure it? (just passwords?)
This is what I have in my lilo.conf:
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
You can use the password option to set a password. LILO
is installed in the MBR (boot=/dev/hda).
> I ask you this because I've been trying to get lilo to
> boot from floppy quite a wile now and I can't seem
> to get it right :(
Seems to work for me.
Martijn
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