booting gbde-encrypted filesystem

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:07:39PM +0800, Ronnel P. Maglasang wrote:
+> Thanks.
+> 
+> Let me clarrify, is this patch of yours allows
+> the passphrase to be entered from the bootloader?
+> Or where? Is there a patch needed for the bootloader
+> for this? Thanks again

Boot-loader know nothing about encryption.
You still need to have /boot/ partition decrypted on your USB Pen-Drive
or CD-ROM. GBDE will ask you for passphrase before root file system is
mounted.
After the boot process you can remove Pen-Drive/CD-ROM.

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