From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Michelangelo virus!
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 14:52:00 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1903061442150.50700@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMYpm86Z+s4Kuwp2GBbAysXpYbTTZA5-5RLHZ3hZxrjFJwpwsg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, Rudi Blom wrote:
> Seems someone had forgotten to disable in the BIOS the booting from
> floppy.
Guess who forgot to remove the OEM CD from a Thinkpad, and rebooted it?
I can't remember the details, but I was repairing the odd bad block; the
box had FreeBSD on it, and I'd just downloaded an update over the net,
rebooted, and walked off for a cup of coffee whilst it did its thing...
The damned thing assumed that silence meant consent, and started to format
the drive; fortunately I'd just installed the base FreeBSD on it, without
any further work.
These days I leave default boot from floppy/CD/etc disabled unless I need
it.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-06 3:52 UTC|newest]
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2019-03-06 2:14 rudi.j.blom
2019-03-06 3:52 ` dave [this message]
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2019-03-05 23:34 dave
2019-03-06 0:29 ` krewat
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