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== BIOS Restrictions ==
== BIOS Restrictions ==
Some BIOS do imlplement restriction, here it will refuses to boot if it finds an internal WiFi card that is not in the vendor's whitelist.
Some BIOS do imlplement restrictions, here it will refuses to boot if it finds an internal WiFi card that is not in the vendor's whitelist.


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Revision as of 13:15, 30 April 2013

Failure at scale

A BIOS gets confused in a very visible way:

Photo courtesy Greg Kurtzer of LBL.


What floor am I on?

An elevator in Spain:

Photo courtesy Gorka Guardiola

Confused payphone

A payphone in trouble. Taken during the LinuxBIOS summit in Hamburg, Germany in October 2006. Bonus: two coreboot hackers visible in the reflection.

Photo by Ward Vandewege

Clipper Machine

At the Palo Alto Caltrain station

From Ed Swierk

Train ticket machine

Somewhere in Berlin

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BIOS Restrictions

Some BIOS do imlplement restrictions, here it will refuses to boot if it finds an internal WiFi card that is not in the vendor's whitelist.