On Jun 21, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Jun 20, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> but the signature isn't part of the kernel, and the code that checks >>> the signature is completely independant. >> >> Well, then remove or otherwise mangle the signature in the disk of >> your TiVo DVR and see at what point the boot-up process halts.
> I have actually done exactly that. what happens is that the bootloader > detects a problem and switches to the other active partition ane > reboots. ir neither of the boot partitions meet the requirements the > cycle will continue forever. Oh, too bad. That must be a bug in the boot loader, right? :-) BTW, since you got a TiVo... I'm writing an article on Tivoization, could you (or anyone else) please help me get information as to what other GPLed programs or libraries TiVo includes in their devices? Thanks in advance, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
