Re: tlug: Booting Linux

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Raimund Buellesbach wrote:

> Or, even better, does someone know a more convenient solution to prevent
> unauthorized booting of the kernel? 

Unauthorized booting, or unauthorized instant-root-access?

The easiest way is to dd that kernel image onto a floppy, rdev it for the
correct root partition, and boot from that floppy always.  No lilo, no way
to (easily) pass arguments to the kernel.

-- Chris

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