evildragon
Veteran Member
I got this friend, whom I went to her house yesterday to pull a prank on her, via her computer. (she wasn't home.)
The prank itself won't be mentioned, because some of you may think it's harsh, while me and her know it would have been a funny prank.
Mainly, I tried to boot her computer (mind you, she's a hard core *nix user), and it just wouldn't boot. Kept getting "INVALID BOOT DISK". Surely her computer works? I've always seen it powered on.
So, I pop in my linux live CD, and notice that her HD is working perfectly fine, but has no boot loader on it!
She comes home, and I just surprise her from being there, and behold, she plugs in a flash stick into the computer, turns on the computer, a boot loader loads FROM the flash stick, and then the computer boots from the internal HD.
So, what she did, was put the boot loader on the external USB flash drive!
Either that is too secure, or just very damn clever? What do you think about that?
The prank itself won't be mentioned, because some of you may think it's harsh, while me and her know it would have been a funny prank.
Mainly, I tried to boot her computer (mind you, she's a hard core *nix user), and it just wouldn't boot. Kept getting "INVALID BOOT DISK". Surely her computer works? I've always seen it powered on.
So, I pop in my linux live CD, and notice that her HD is working perfectly fine, but has no boot loader on it!
She comes home, and I just surprise her from being there, and behold, she plugs in a flash stick into the computer, turns on the computer, a boot loader loads FROM the flash stick, and then the computer boots from the internal HD.
So, what she did, was put the boot loader on the external USB flash drive!
Either that is too secure, or just very damn clever? What do you think about that?