On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:57 PM, elliott-brennan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> What the hell has this been created for?

What Glen Turner said, but it possibly also temporarily disables MBR
protection. Some older BIOSes won't let you overwrite your MBR without
setting an option, as boot sector viruses were apparently trendy in
the '90s.
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