[arch-general] Rerun bootloader from initramfs

[Aron Widforss]

On 11/20/2015 05:13 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> On 20 November 2015 at 17:04, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20-11-2015 17:19, Joan Aymà wrote:
>>> Why should not be easier to boot following Disk_Encryption on the wiki[1]?
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
>>
>> Because I'm talking about this [1] and not software based encryption.
>>
>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption
>
> I'd sincerely advice against using these 'hardware' disk encryptions.
> what happens when your motherboard is at fault, and you need the data
> on the disk *now* and it wont work in a USB enclosure?
>
> anyway, maybe you could use kexec in your PBA and run the installed
> linux kernel with that.
>
>

And when a vuln is found it is helluva lot harder to fix the hardware 
than just patchinig the system.

Vänligen,
Aron Widforss