Re: [SeaBIOS] Next release

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:06:31AM +0100, Fred . wrote:
> Boot sector write protection.
> Prevent modify boot sector, master boot record, partition tables.
>
> Less and less computers come with optical disk drivers to run read-only
> Live distributions from. Would be nice with option to set hard disk drive
> read-only.
> So you can use a HDD or USB as a LiveCD/LiveDVD distribution.

If someone has a patch for this, I'll consider it.  I don't think it
is worthwhile to hold up a release if this feature is not ready.

Separately, there's no way for SeaBIOS to prevent access to the MBR,
so I'm not sure how that would work.

-Kevin