On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:50:33AM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Hello, all. > Now when core image can be booted by multiple sources perhaps it would > be a good idea to recieve some boot arguments in case boot method (e.g. > multiboot) supports it. Probably the best way is to recieve pairs > <name,value> which can be easily imported to environment.
I assume you talk about GRUB loading itself; what kind of information would you pass from one GRUB to the other? > Another > possibility of improving boot process is to detect the prefix even if > partition map changed it can be done e.g. with UUID We use UUIDs already, but only when drives can't be referred to unambigously, check how grub-install does it. > but this comprises a > security risk in case an attacker can plug a device (cdrom, floppy, > USB-memory,..) containing a partition with the same UUID. What do you > think about it I think people who want this level of security (i.e. local media is not trusted) should use crypto checksums to verify they're loading what they expected, with or without UUIDs. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
