I've seen other BIOS (Award, AMI) have a setting in the menu to enable "Boot sector protection".
What would be possible in SeaBIOS to prevent overwrite boot sector, mbr, partition tables? On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Kevin O'Connor <ke...@koconnor.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 01:06:31AM +0100, Fred . wrote: > > Boot sector write protection. > > Prevent modify boot sector, master boot record, partition tables. > > > > Less and less computers come with optical disk drivers to run read-only > > Live distributions from. Would be nice with option to set hard disk drive > > read-only. > > So you can use a HDD or USB as a LiveCD/LiveDVD distribution. > > If someone has a patch for this, I'll consider it. I don't think it > is worthwhile to hold up a release if this feature is not ready. > > Separately, there's no way for SeaBIOS to prevent access to the MBR, > so I'm not sure how that would work. > > -Kevin >
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