Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:47:28 +0100 | From | Johnny Tevessen <> | Subject | Re: /dev/nvram on my Celebris |
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Quoting Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es):
> You can binary edit /dev/mydospartition or /dev/myboothd
But on x86, it should be *very* hard to reconfigure the system to boot directly into Linux again just by accessing /dev/* and /proc/*.
If the BIOS doesn't want to boot from HD, it doesn't. Set it to boot from CD first. Insert a CD (which is r/o).
It has already been pointed out that it might not be needed to reboot the box to make changes affect. I'm thinking about how to make an x86 system *not* be able to reboot (with different settings or such) from remote.
If the system just stops with "CD not bootable. Insert a bootable one" or such, this would be perfectly okay (assuming that the kernel cannot crash).
ciao, johnny -- Trust no-one.
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