Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Posted Apr 25, 2022 14:09 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by mjg59
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
I think you should separate the XX century from the XXI century here.
I still remember MS-6309.
Year 2000 edition had a nice, simple jumper which made ROM read-only. Yes, certain change in configuration cause complaints at boot, but it was a simple matter of changing its position for one boot and return it back after that.
It was as protected from malware as one can imagine.
And then version 5 from 2001 (or was it 2002?) which not only lacked jumper in that place, it refused to boot if you short these two numbs which were left in it's place!
So, please don't tell about the problematic situation with BIOS. It wasn't problematic when people cared. It is, of course, became problematic when people started thinking only about flexibility and forgot that it's not a good idea to have computers which are trivially bricked.
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