On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: : By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were talking : about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy booting. Could : you please elaborate?
Sure. If you hold down the shift key very soon in the boot cycle, you'll get a prompt like "1FA:", which is mbr's friendly way of saying "You, pick Partition 1, Floppy, or Automatic" as the boot process. (Of course, this prompt may look a little different depending on how you've configured your system). It is the default master boot record installed by Debian (unless you choose to NOT install a master boot record; most users do, I imagine), and it will allow someone to boot with a floppy before LILO even runs, unless the sysadmin has disabled floppy boot in BIOS. Not all BIOSes support this option, so it makes sense to consider mbr's place in a security scheme. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
