In a message originally to Brian McCloud, Dalin Owen said:
 DO> 506
 DO>-> i wanted to put a password program in my boot sector, so that no
 DO>BM> matter what i would get the password prompt, even before disk's
 DO>-> are read, but do not know how to do it, me and my friends are
 DO>-> actually thinking of  making a whole security package out of it, but
 DO>-> none of us are able to do this
 DO>BM> As far as I am aware, the system BIOS, loaded from ROM, checks the
 DO>BM> disks to see which is bootable.  Therefore, the only way to do what
 DO>BM> you want is to hard-wire it into the ROM.  Some BIOSes allow
 DO>BM> passwords in the CMOS, but I think that's just to prevent s
 DO> I can _fully_ lock out my system with a BIOS password! Except that
 DO> doesn't stop someone from pulling the battery.. ;(
 DO> Dalin
 if you use award bios then i can get by your password protection with the 
following passwords
1) lkwpeter
2) Sxyz
3) j262
4) AWARD_SW
5) 595595
cya
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þþ R E S H is in da houz dudez.
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