Re: when will GRUB boot from an encrypted LVM?

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On 01/19/2011 06:53 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> On 01/19/2011 12:09 PM, S Mathias wrote:
> ...
>> Does anybody know, when will Fedora support the "full encryption"?
> 
> Wouldn't you need encryption support in the BIOS in order for it to load
> grub from an encrypted partition?
> 
> Mogens
> 

Not necessarily. I think it's possible these days to load GRUB into
extended UFI, rather than needing to load it from the disk.

However, this would obviously only work for UFI systems, and not for
BIOS-only systems.

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