Re: Truecrypt Windows system encryption and Legacy GRUB

[Martin Hinner]

Hi,


On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Felix Zielcke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Grub-legacy is in feature freeze, that means only important bugfixes
> will be done.
> Why should distributions switch to grub2 if more and more features are
> added to grub-legacy instead of grub2?
> For Debian we plan to have grub2 as standard for the next release named
> squeeze. For other distros I don't know how there plans are.

Ok.

I have installed grub2 on my ubuntu test installation to make some progress :-).

apt-get install grub2 and then grub-upgrade has again erased first
track of my hard drive. Why is grub installation doing this? Why
grub-setup has to overwrite this area of boot hard drive with stage1.5
? This wipes out truecrypt residential code and makes impossible to
work together with TC.

I am grub2-newbie, is it possible to do something like (grub.cfg):

if !truecrypt_present ; then
  load_truecrypt (hd0)   # this actually loads truecrypt similar way
to chainloader
fi

?

Martin