---- Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't the MBR and stage 1 of the bootloader have to be in plain > text? I mean, the x86 BIOS is small and not very bright, so you're > stuck with having some unencrypted stuff on it. I think. If the > BIOS has additional functions, you might be able to have a totally > crypted disk. I also can't see that much point to encrypting /boot > , but encrypting / , /usr , /home , and so forth makes a lot of > sense for some situations. > Nathan, The MBR is not in a partition(It's on the very first sector/track. As for the kernel and the first stage, as I understand it, it's in the /boot directory so one has to be make it a steperate partition and not encrypted. As for the rest. encrypt away!!!! Jon
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