[ale] Check your Lenovos...again

[Charles Shapiro]

Huh. This is pretty interesting.  I wonder what would happen on an
fdisk-and-clean-install of a Linux system here.  It looks like the code
which is run from inside the BIOS assumes a Windows install on the
hard-drive, but from the article I can't tell whether that's the case.
Presumably those "business-oriented laptops" have UEFI enabled and the BIOS
locked, so you can't install a non-Microsoft-sanctioned OS on them anyways.

-- CHS


On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
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