[SeaBIOS] Next release

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed Jan 9 19:55:17 CET 2013


Fred . wrote:
> I've seen other BIOS (Award, AMI) have a setting in the menu to enable
> "Boot sector protection".

Did you study what it actually does?


> What would be possible in SeaBIOS to prevent overwrite boot sector,
> mbr, partition tables?

Nothing, really. An operating system can always communicate directly
with the hardware and overwrite whatever sectors it wants.


//Peter



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