On Monday, September 26, 2011 10:26:03 PM Jonas de Buhr wrote: > >I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on > >PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate > >some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS > >firmware and flash the BIOS with it before we are able to boot into it? > > > >Is it more complicated than that? > > how are you going to write to the bios if it doesn't let you? > > maybe you are determined enough to manually flash the chip every time > you update grub but i think thats a buzzkill for >90% of the users ;)
Eerhm... If Grub is the bootloader, wouldn't we just need to have a "signed" version of Grub? -- Joost
