Re: hardware conditional OS boot/load

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Do, 18.11.21 19:16, lejeczek (peljasz@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hi guys.
>
> I hope an expert(or two) could shed some light - I ain't a kernel nor
> hardware expert so go easy on me please - on whether it is possible to boot
> system only under certain conditions, meaning: as early as possible (grub?)
> and similarly securely, Linux checks for certain hardware, eg. CPU serial
> no. and continue to load only when such conditions are met?
>
> I realize that perhaps kernel devel be the place for such questions but seen
> I'm subscriber here, knowing people here are experts of same caliber, I
> decided to ask.

You can certainly hack something up like this, but to my knowledge
none of the boot loaders currently implement something like this.

Lennart

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