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Operating Systems Linux Debian Grub 1.99 alters BIOS (confirmed after formatting hard disk) Post 302852041 by Corona688 on Tuesday 10th of September 2013 11:10:36 AM
Old 09-10-2013
Linux will not reformat your BIOS.

UEFI may go bananas of its own volition, however.
 

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CHECK-SELINUX-INSTALLATION(8)				      System Manager's Manual				     CHECK-SELINUX-INSTALLATION(8)

NAME
check-selinux-installation -- perform configuration checks in SELinux installation SYNOPSIS
check-selinux-installation DESCRIPTION
check-selinux-installation this command will run scripts to pull in some standard SELinux stuff via dependencies. SEE ALSO
selinux (8), sestatus(8), selinuxenabled (1), postfix-nochroot(8), selinux-config-enforcing(8), selinux-policy-upgrade(8), http://wiki.debian.org/SELinux - More about SELinux Debian install AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ulisses Castro <uss.thebug@gmail.com> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version pub- lished by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. CHECK-SELINUX-INSTALLATION(8)
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