James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > 2009/9/26 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: > >> It's generally a bad idea to chase grub out of MBR+embed area. It often >> results in unreliable configurations. Could you detail your usecase so >> we can seek for a bettere solution? >> > > The other thing sitting in the embedded area is a whole disc encryption > product. > It takes up about 60 sectors of the 64 sectors of the embedded area. > I guess you speak about truecrypt. In this case the solution I would recommend is to make grub load truecrypt's embedding area from a file on the disk (it probably can be extracted from truecrypt w/o installing booter). It's not a difficult task, just nobody did it yet (volunteers are welcome). Beware that truecrypt is distributed under a license which has legal danger to the end user. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt Of course it's your choice to use it or not but I would suggest to avoid such software especially for the data you need to protect > I don't think that there is a standard way of managing who has > priority over the embedded area. > I think it would be good if one could put grub into the beginning of a > partition. > The problem with this is that I don't know if there is room to put > grub at the beginning of an ext3 > or lvm partition. If it were possible, it would make grub much more > compatible with Dual boot systems. > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
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