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Bug#56821: Important security hole: mbr allows anyone to boot from a floppy.



> Hum. Oh, it looks like this would leave "advanced" mode enabled,
> a non-documented mode wherein, according to the manual page, any
> partition can be booted.

I'm afriad this is not acceptable because of some setup scenarios. You
probably should file a bug against the mbr package to ask that F be disabled
under A if --enable -F was specified on the command line.

randolph
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