Subject: Re: BootLoader
To: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/01/2003 11:16:01
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Hi,

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 10:04:21AM +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

> A question; is the ability to install a bootloader dependent on the secure
> level? If I'm in securelevel 2, can I write a bootloader?=20

Probably not. The ability to access raw devices - at least those whose
buffered counterpart is opened (e.g, mounted as a file system) - depends
on the securelevel being low enough. At 2, it is blocked.

Regards,
	-is

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