On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:25:27 +0200 phcoder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Gorven has already implemented LUKS support for grub2. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ really nice to know. But does it still required /boot partition as un-encrypted ? >Using > truecrypt with linux partitions is a bad idea - this encryption isn't > native to it in any way and also truecrypt is under GPL-incompatible > licence which means it's unlikely to be incorporated to grub (you > need to figure out the on-disk layout of truecrypt and then > reimplement it from scratch (but you can reuse ciphers from luks > implementation)). If all you want is boot windows installed on > truecrypt partition then the best way is to chainload truecrypt > booter. I haven't yet looked in it myself but it seems that truecrypt > booter uses mbr gap too which conflicts with grub. However it can be > workarounded by dumping contents of mbr gap created by truecrypt and > replicating the action of tc-mbr (can't be difficult) eagerly waiting to see that grub2 support that Thanks > J. Bakshi wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > GRUB2 is a robust boot loader. Is it possible to have truecrypt > > encryption support dirctly in GRUB2 ? Then we can have truecrypt > > encrypted partition with linux installed and GRUB2 just decrypt it > > and load the kernel. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
