> The simple solution is: you never boot from the hard disk, but from a > physically write protected device (write protected floppy, non writeable > CD or CDRW in a non writing CDROM drive, USB thumb drive with a physical > write protect switch). that's not totally fool proof either; after all an attacker can adjust the nvram to change the boot device order. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html