Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:04:15PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote

> I judge from this that what's likely to actually happen is rather
> different from the initial "shrill paranoia" theorized approaches,
> which would have generated a pretty enormous potential for
> self-inflicted DOS attacks.
> 
> Notably, as long as the BIOS provides an option of going around the
> "check the sigs" logic, which is *very* much in the interests of
> motherboard vendors, it shouldn't be very difficult to avoid having a
> problem.

  I seem to remember several years ago that it was fashionable for BIOS
to have a "do not write to boot/ sector or partition table" setting.  I
had to turn it off before I could install linux.  Then I turned it back
on after the install.  Whatever happened to that?  It was so much
simpler than UEFI.

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