On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:40:09 -0700, "ron minnich" rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:37:41 +0200, Stefan Reinauer
wrote:
I think this might be even better...
writing to drives from firmware might be a bad idea,
Why? Even if it is simple text file?
yes. It's very worrisome to people. I did my little bios virus for DOE and people were somewhat unhappy to learn how easy it is :-) It's never possible to put the words simple and file and write in the same sentence :-)
Maybe so for a virus. But when it allows an end user to have a completely configurable boot loader... I wish I knew a way to allocate a small read/write space at the end of the payload space (flash) (10k would be plenty), it would make the process painless and seamless...