On 20-11-2015 12:59, Bennett Piater wrote: > > I'm afraid I can't help you, but now I'm curious as to why you would > want to do that :) For the specific case of self encrypting disks. When you turn the system on the disk will present what is called a shadow mbr, where a pre boot authentication (PBA) image is stored. This image will ask the user for a password (or keyfile or something else) to unlock the disk, if unlocking is successful only then the "normal" disk is accessible. If using a PBA image based on arch, leveraging what is provided by mkinitcpio, then the sequence is like this: cold boot - run PBA image and authenticate - reboot - boot "normal" system. If it could be possible to (re)run the bootloader right from the initramfs of the PBA image, this time using the bootloader of the "normal" system, then the intermediate reboot step would not be needed and would streamline the process a bit (and make it faster). -- Mauro Santos
