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
I've seen other BIOS (Award, AMI) have a setting in the menu to enable "Boot sector protection".
What would be possible in SeaBIOS to prevent overwrite boot sector, mbr, partition tables?
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net wrote:
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
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Kevin O'Connor