On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000 Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply, John. > > > > It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only > > with tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine > > in the first place, that I have forgotten / no knowledge of how > > this may be achieved. > > In any case, I was always under the impression that BIOS resided in > > ROM (Read Only Memory) hardware, which required removing chips and > > re-buring them with ROM burner hardware. Maybe things have changed > > since I was last in that world, but to my knowledge the BIOS > > setting that we can tinker with, are stored in some sort of FLASH > > memory or similar, which is indeed writeable, and maintained by the > > on board battery. > > > > But, as I say, all this is from many years ago and maybe things have > > changed. > > > > But I would like to at least have some backup way out if 'the evil > > empire' did actually achieve that draconian, monopolistic goal. > > > > Regards > > > > Alex > > > > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now. Here are a couple of articles that bear on the subject: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/will-windows-8-block-users-from-dual-booting-linux-microsoft-wont-say/10772 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-tries-to-block-linux-off-windows-8-pcs/9572 Regards, Weaver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110923151527.31443b77.wea...@riseup.net
