boot/physical security?
Hi there, just a quick question. As an old slackware user, I usually
have a restricted boot with a password in my lilo setup, as well as an
entry for the floppy drive in my system- so, the system boots from drive
c, hits lilo, and boots linux with the default parameters; if you have
the password, you can boot from a floppy or give the kernel evtra
parameters. the bios has a password as well. i found that this was a
pretty good way to discourage some of the bootfloppy/'linux
single'/script kiddie hacker-types around my school. however, with
debian (bo), the actual MBR boot block allows you to boot from a
different partition, or even a floppy, with no authentication at all-
even worse, you access it in the same waym by holding down control
during the boot. I noticed that lilo was setup to use /boot/boot.b as
default, while slackware always used /boot/any_d.b - but when i tell
lilo to use any_d.b (verified as being in /boot), it complains loudly
about not finding my /dev/hda1 - any suggestions?
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