In article <qwdpbp0y@cck.coventry.ac.uk> csg203@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Bluebeard) writes:
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>But that wouldn't stop someone with linux/minix boot and root file system 
>disks, booting from floppy and then mounting the hard disk.
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>The protected BIOS is the only real answer unless the linux partition was
>encoded in some way that only the 'official' kernel could read.
You could always hack your copy of the kernel's filesystem routines to do some-
thing like always use the negative of one of the essential paramters in the
filesystem, though changing over would be a nuisance.

But the best I've seen is something like my 5-5-91 AMI BIOS, which lets you
define the drive boot order a-c or c-a.  Set passwording on changing setup,
set c to boot first, and as long as c is bootable a won't be checked to boot
off of.  Unless they scribble on your hard drive's boot sector, it will always
boot to Linux...

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        Keith
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