2009/9/26 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>: > 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
It is not truecrypt. I would argue that a "full disk encryption" product should be in the boot sector/embedded area and everything else, even grub should load after it. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
