On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I was wondering how hard it is to remove/replace the mbr package. We have > a single system running hamm, for which we want to disable the capability > of booting from a diskette. Currently we've disabled floppy-boot in the > BIOS, and configured LILO to require a password (only if kernel-options are > specified at it's prompt). However, it seems that mbr still provides the > capability for a diskette boot... if I tap the shift key just before the > LILO prompt would appear, I see the prompt "1FA:" - pressing "f" then > causes a boot from floppy. > > I'm afraid that using dpkg to force it's removal would break the system, as > dselect shows it to be a required component (and lilo appears to be making > use of it). Any suggestions? > > The easiest way (I know of) is to install lilo on the root partition itself (and make it bootable), and then with a dos floppy disk do fdisk /mbr.
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