6 Mar
2019
6 Mar
'19
3:52 a.m.
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