Subject: Re: port-i386/12506: Request: password for input in bootselect
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/31/2001 11:51:17
On Sat Mar 31 2001 at 01:06:52 +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Anne Bennett wrote:
> > installboot: no password support in bootblock
> 
> cd /sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot, edit the Makefile to build with
> BOOTPASSWD, rebuild. 
> 
> I have not tried this - someone mentioned that there may be a size issue
> in the current bootblock code. Maybe let us know if this works or not.

Come to think of it, that was me. IIRC the bootblock compiled with
-DBOOTPASSWD just reset the machine instead of booting anything. I don't
think I ever did anything about it, simply just removed the bootmenu
from the code alltogether.

-- 
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>          v          Of course he runs NetBSD
http://www.iki.fi/pooka/             i            http://www.NetBSD.org/