From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:00:21 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help In-Reply-To: <4878.1121962344@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: References: <4878.1121962344@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6dca8320-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > If you can't trust the BIOS, you can't trust *anything* about the > machine. There are business-card-sized CD-R's, so if you do trust the > BIOS you can have a read-only bootable system in your wallet at all > times. If you use the disk only for a "cfs -r", you don't need to trust > its contents. it's almost always assumed by people on this list that all computers have an orifice of some sort or another into which bootable media can be poked. I don't know why. ron