HDD encryption

[Sir Light]

---- Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> 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