In a message dated: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:38:45 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
> *That* can be thwarted by BIOS passwords that restrict booting from
>external media. In that event, you remove the HDD and install it as a
>secondary disk in a working system. ;-)
Here's an interesting question. One of the things I loved about
"real hardware", i.e. Sun, DEC, HP, etc. was that all their systems
were really designed with their own proprietary OS in mind. As a
result, from the OS, you could do things like affect the boot status
of the EEPROM and do things like set the initial boot device, set
password protection, etc. all from the OS. This came in *really*
handy with Sun systems when setting up my JumpStart configuration. I
could, in the post-install script, set EEPROM passwords, etc. at
system build time automatically.
This is obviously *not* the case with Intel boxen. Is there any way
that anyone knows of to get or set BIOS parameters from within Linux?
I'd think that is should be possible, but have never heard of anyone
doing it. Has anyone else?
--
Seeya,
Paul
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God Bless America!
...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon
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