On Tue 15 Feb 2022 at 19:28:48 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote:
> > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and
> > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to
On 2/16/22, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 06:45:15PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 5:59:37 PM EST Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > > Yes, "infected" floppy disks were a thing. There really wasn't any
>> > > way to make money off viruses, though.
>> >
>
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 06:45:15PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 5:59:37 PM EST Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Yes, "infected" floppy disks were a thing. There really wasn't any
> > > way to make money off viruses, though.
> >
> > I think McAffe would disagree.
> >
> So
On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 5:59:37 PM EST Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Yes, "infected" floppy disks were a thing. There really wasn't any
> > way to make money off viruses, though.
>
> I think McAffe would disagree.
>
Sorry, but that spammer is so disagreable that he would yell insults at
the g
Andrei writes:
> DOS was both very limited in capabilities and didn't implement any
> kind of access control or similar.
It *couldn't*. The 8088/8086 lacked the hardware.
> This was probably the best breeding ground for computer viruses the
> bad guys could ever hope for, as they could "infect"
On Ma, 15 feb 22, 12:41:28, John Hasler wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU writes:
> > When it loads a kernel or chain-loads another boot-loader it basically
> > hands over control completely,
>
> Which is what DOS does.
That was possibly not the best choice of words from my side.
DOS was both very limite
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> When it loads a kernel or chain-loads another boot-loader it basically
> hands over control completely,
Which is what DOS does.
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On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote:
> > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > >
> > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and
> > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to another kernel
> > > midway), but the Grub bootloader is kind of a mini-
On 2022-02-15, David wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote:
>
>> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on
>> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing
>> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.
>
On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 10:24, David Wright wrote:
> Effectively, Grub has two shells, Grub> and Grub rescue>, depending on
> whether the "normal" module has been loaded, and about the only thing
> you can sensibly do without normal is to find it and insmod it.
> But most people will never see re
On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 12:13:20 (-0500), Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described
> > > is more like the
> > > behavior of the Debian installer (i.e.,
On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more
like the
behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux
kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the instal
On 2022-02-14 10:02, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I think I did mis-remember this, and the behavior I described is more like the
behavior of the Debian installer (i.e., it boots an image (with a Linux
kernel) into RAM to use temporarily for the installation.
I just wanted to try to correct this fo
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 09:04:50 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> The way I understand it (but I may be misremembering), grub temporaily
> boots into a, well I'll say restricted Linux kernel and OS which is used
> by grub until it boots up the main system. The kernel used in grub may
> not (p
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