Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]? Regards. [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption El 20/11/15 a les 15:08, Mauro Santos ha escrit: > 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). >
