Bug#56821: Important security hole: mbr allows anyone to boot from a floppy.
Thomas Quinot wrote:
> Great. We seem to have identified one fundamental point where we
> have different opinions. I think that, on a system with default installation,
> if you disable booting from floppy in the BIOS and in LILO, then
> it is not expected behaviour that you /still/ can boot from floppy.
>
> Can we agree on that?
What you say makes no sense at all. You make an exception for lilo, but
ignore the rest of the boot process, which includes mbr.
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