Yes, the same would be the case with a Windows machine. I suspect
you're correct but would not readily agree unless I knew what sort of
communication took place between the BIOS and the USB device that would
definitively prevent the USB device from assuming control once its code
was activated by the BIOS. I'm not familiar with Macs but in the case
of a Linux machine it maybe be booting on the same hardware as the
Windows machine.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/7/2014 9:39 AM, Sawyer, Edward wrote:
Doubtful the USB stick would take over booting the machine, it would have
to be installed when booting, and the machine would have to be explicitly
told to boot from USB (presuming one could even pack a full boot method
into the space allotted), instead of the HD or SSD, in the case of the Mac
OS. The mac doesn't search for USB sticks to boot from, it boots from
what it's told to boot from in the software preferences (startup drive),
unless explicitly told otherwise, I believe.
Try not get all Chicken Little on this.
On 10/7/14 6:16 AM, "olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<olympus-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That USB device may replace
the boot sector on the boot device before the OS ever starts. So I'm
not so sure that Linux and Mac users should be confident they're free
and clear. I hope your view is correct but I'm not at all sure that it
is.
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