Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

phcoder wrote:
> I was thinking about the scenario when ide drives are trusted but not
> USB or removable devices. Cryptographic checksums wouldn't bring much
> because if attacker can modify harddrive he can also modify GRUB to skip
>  checksum check.

Then you password protect it :) Once that is supported.

But really, if attacker has access to your HDD then there is not a
really reason why we should do defense against that one as they can
overwrite us at will.