Re: HDD encryption

---- Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@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


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