2009/9/27 Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz>: > > Obviously your encryption solution does not encrypt the linux volume > which you boot using the USB stick so it has no reason to be loaded > when loading Linux, it can only cause harm by trying to decrypt what > is not encrypted. You make a assumption that the encryption program would cause harm. It does not. One specifies which partitions to encrypt/decrypt and it leaves the rest alone.
> > Also as Grub can access the disk drives by various means (BIOS, PCI > device driver, ...) the encryption software would have to hijack all > these access paths transparently which I can't imagine happening. > One would obviously need grub to only use BIOS calls and no direct PCI device access for it to work together with the whole disc encryption program in pre-boot stages. Alternatively, one would have to add encryption support into grub itself that is not a good idea. I think that maybe being able to install grub into it's own small partition instead of the embedded area would be all I would need. Kind Regards James _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
