I didn't really have time to look into this in detail, but I removed the
call to bootmenu() from main.c in biosboot, recompiled to bootblock, and
accomplished what I wanted. Not very pretty, but it works.

On Thu Feb 08 2001 at 15:00:07 +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a few boxes which should not be trivially booted
> into single-user, so in addition to protecting from a direct boot from
> the floppy, I need to protect also booting from a floppy from the
> bootloader.
> 
> So I compiled biosboot.sym with -DBOOTPASSWD and installed the new
> bootblock with password-query enabled. It did indeed ask for a password
> when I tried to enter the bootmenu. The only problem was that the new
> bootblock couldn't actually boot anything, it just got stuck.
> 
> Does anyone have installboot password protection in use with stock 1.5,
> or this feature currently broken?

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