Re: Current state of grub2 encryption support

[phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>]

Michael Gorven wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2009 04:48:02 steve wrote:
>> Update, i was able to get the right modules to load into a core.img by
>> making the encrypted partition start at 1mb instead of 32.5kb, the modules
>> loaded into core.img were:
> 
> Nice! I briefly looked at getting everything into core.img, but it seemed 
> impossible. That's a nice solution though.

How big is the smallest core.img you could get? Have you tried applying 
my bootmove patch?

> 
>> At boot, i issue the ls command which causes it to find the luks partition
>> and ask for the password, after that point i am able to have it read a
>> grub.cfg file from (lk0)/boot/grub/grub.cfg, which then loads the kernel.
> 
> I haven't gotten round to trying this, but ideally core.img should be 
> configured to look for the config file on an encrypted partition so that it 
> automatically prompts for the password and then loads the menu.
> 
> Michael
> 
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