On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:12:24PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Thomas Quinot wrote: > > And here is the problem: > > The MBR used by Debian by default allows any user to boot from > > floppy. No other PC MBR does that. > > Again, why should mbr be held to a different standard than lilo? You say > it's undocumented, but see /usr/doc/mbr/README: > > The boot prompt looks something like this: > > 14FA: > > This is the list of valid keys which may be pressed. This means that > partitions 1, and 4 can be booted, also the first floppy drive (F). The > A means that 'advanced' mode may be entered, in which any partition may > be booted. It's not written in French, perhaps that is why he ignored it. /me gleefully heaps more fuel on the fire -- G. Branden Robinson | I just wanted to see what it looked like Debian GNU/Linux | in a spotlight. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Jim Morrison roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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