From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LuTmR-0006Xy-GL for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:35 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuTmP-0006WJ-8L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuTmK-0006VA-Qm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:32 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49960 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuTmK-0006V7-Kf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:28 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.190]:35214) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LuTmK-0000Gl-4n for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:28 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b6so299232tic.10 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:45:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zvKS3j/1R5FhMfB17Yhgn9Xp0ve/hfZ4H0RMLhvgc/g=; b=XYzRjktCa6kjXVVUCj4LeboGVoHYevu6eoeZ5qy/SdG6VzNpFN2Rnwxjjvx0jiPGh5 tj/p10eBbRXBba+OG6TxYdvWx8ddZQSegEbqVXCvwAeugIxVK1EIUG0UzkT5ywENLm2b P33ESUhpfO5B130LazdQ9ML3ybQ/aWwA+DC00= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TAjozICnliUaHK4Nakv4PtoodkP4E0AFnIcyFFGGoB4WU1dAVMc5glF4BgBdwCnaw2 ZhTH9a4bRTZbEFy4wqtcX97wzxQT1AJoR9FMvm4GhwIsMQPJbR6a2yOful8jBr/WyXiF AC03PeZFi0+iHXQQqnQ6r+VmKmfwU56J9H1mg= Received: by 10.110.3.15 with SMTP id 15mr1691645tic.0.1239896725003; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian ([115.187.40.188]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm873525tib.28.2009.04.16.08.45.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:12:05 +0530 From: "J. Bakshi" To: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-ID: <20090416211205.7b715cf8@debian> In-Reply-To: <49E60A77.7030800@gmail.com> References: <20090415185854.25415b00@debian> <49E60A77.7030800@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: truecrypt support in grub ? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:45:33 -0000 On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:25:27 +0200 phcoder wrote: > Michael Gorven has already implemented LUKS support for grub2. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ really nice to know. But does it still required /boot partition as un-encrypted ? >Using > truecrypt with linux partitions is a bad idea - this encryption isn't > native to it in any way and also truecrypt is under GPL-incompatible > licence which means it's unlikely to be incorporated to grub (you > need to figure out the on-disk layout of truecrypt and then > reimplement it from scratch (but you can reuse ciphers from luks > implementation)). If all you want is boot windows installed on > truecrypt partition then the best way is to chainload truecrypt > booter. I haven't yet looked in it myself but it seems that truecrypt > booter uses mbr gap too which conflicts with grub. However it can be > workarounded by dumping contents of mbr gap created by truecrypt and > replicating the action of tc-mbr (can't be difficult) eagerly waiting to see that grub2 support that Thanks > J. Bakshi wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > GRUB2 is a robust boot loader. Is it possible to have truecrypt > > encryption support dirctly in GRUB2 ? Then we can have truecrypt > > encrypted partition with linux installed and GRUB2 just decrypt it > > and load the kernel. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >