Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Yash Jain <yash2le...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could you please let me know how can i upgrade to GRUB2(because > trusted GRUB is based on legacy GRUB) or it is still fine if i can use > the legacy GRUB to load kernel 2.6.37.
I'm still using GRUB-legacy with "linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6", and it works perfectly. I'm not using any patches provided by GRUB-IMA, but I doubt Linux developers have changed anything that would break those patches (or any other boot loader that supports Linux), and I doubt there's any reason for you to switch to GRUB2 in the short term. In the longer term, eventually you'll need to switch to a boot loader that supports UEFI (the firmware/BIOS that GRUB-legacy relies on is slowly being deprecated). For Linux your choices are limited to GRUB2 and ELILO, and neither of these boot loaders have any support for ensuring boot files haven't been tampered with. If you have a strict requirement for that (e.g. Dept. of Defence or something), then you may have no choice but to switch to an OS that cares more about your security than the freedom of malicious attackers. Cheers, Brendan _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
