> I have got the cih virus on one of my computers. The cih virus is quite > nasty first it overwrites the first mb of every hd you have installed and > then it flashes your bios with invalid code. So it's quite impossible to > boot an os. But I got this idea. Would it be possible to boot with an > other bios that contains the etherboot code from a network card? Or does > the etherboot code use the bios on the motherboard when it boots? > > The motherboard in the computer I am talking about is of the type of > motherboards where you can't remove the bios. Etherboot is a BIOS extension and needs the main BIOS start up first. Looks like the only solution is to take out the main BIOS with a soldering iron. ------------------------------------------------------ This mail sent via NLC WebMail: http://www.nlc.net.au/ =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: ken@nlc.net.au To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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