Re: truecrypt support in grub ?

[phcoder]

Michael Gorven has already implemented LUKS support for grub2. 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)
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
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko