Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

Fri Oct 21 14:59:13 UTC 2011

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:41:38PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Did linux installs use BIOS calls???

No, not that I can imagine.  I have seen linux detect attached disks
that were "disabled" in the BIOS.  DOS couldn't see them, but linux
asked the controller and found the disk.

The only part of linux that would use BIOS calls should be the bootloader
and it would only do reads.

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