when will GRUB boot from an encrypted LVM?

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 01/19/2011 07:04 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> 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.
> 

Obviously, I meant EFI here...

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