Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-31 Thread Patrick Georgi
Robert Millan schrieb: IOW, no matter who the keys belong to, the problem is there's a component in the hardware I paid for that is hostile to me, which contains keys that I cannot retrieve (good, because of security), and refuses to use the keys on anything I want it to (bad, because it's inhere

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:45:10PM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > As far as I know, this mechanism doesn't prevent you from creating > another root. (or just deleting the old one) No, but it stablishes a practice that it is ok to use someone else's root. When everyone starts doing this (and they

Re: [PATCH] make grub2 compile with libc-less crosscompilers

2007-05-31 Thread Patrick Georgi
Hi, any more comments or questions on this patch, so I can improve it if necessary? Thanks, Patrick Georgi Index: aclocal.m4 === RCS file: /sources/grub/grub2/aclocal.m4,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 aclocal.m4 --- aclo

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-31 Thread Marco Gerards
Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070530 15:18]: >> IOW, no matter who the keys belong to, the problem is there's a component in >> the hardware I paid for that is hostile to me, which contains keys that I >> cannot retrieve (good, because of securi

Re: multiboot header error

2007-05-31 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Since i didn't get any feedback, i was forced to use the force and go to the source. I found out a few amazing things. First of all, there is a serious inconsistency between the next version of the Multiboot Specification and the current code. The spec mentions: "[..] The header must start with a

Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

2007-05-31 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070531 18:40]: > > You do not need a TPM based system. Todays BIOSes prohibit flashing > > anything not signed by the vendor using SMI and hardware lockdown > > mechanisms. You are locked out already, even though you might not care > > or know yet. > > That sou