[NTLUG:Discuss] Safeboot

[Johnny Cybermyth]

Perhaps you could install linux using VMWare Player under windows?  I 
don't know if that would allow you to mount your partitions or not, but 
you might be closer to working with the problem rather than against it.

Also, I don't know how samba shares work exactly, but you might be able 
to work out something where windows could serve up files to other 
distros which couldn't mount the drive directly.

Just brainstorming...

If that works, it would be the strongest case for Windows being the host 
OS for VMware and playing *nix images.

--Johnny

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> terry wrote:
>> Anyone know about "safeboot"?  And particularly what can or can not be
>> done about a lost Linux install due to installation of "safeboot"? (I
>> wonder if one could dd it to another HD or something like that?... But
>> is there an easier way?)
>>   
> If I remember correctly, this product was advertised to a school 
> technology group as being a way to make computers, desktop and laptop, 
> theft proof.  One of the main tech people begged to differ with the cto 
> of safeboot, and was told by him that even booting from the cdrom and 
> installing another system would not circumvent safeboot since part of it 
> was in the BIOS and could phone home if tampered with.  I think all of 
> the tech people on the mailing list agreed that it could be defeated by 
> booting to windows with a BART-PE disk and reflashing the BIOS.  Other 
> than that, using a live cd is about all you can do and then you can't 
> save your work.  HTH, Dennis
> 
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