Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo?

[Joost Roeleveld]

On Monday, September 26, 2011 10:26:03 PM Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on
> >PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate
> >some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS
> >firmware and flash the BIOS with it before we are able to boot into it?
> >
> >Is it more complicated than that?
>
> how are you going to write to the bios if it doesn't let you?
>
> maybe you are determined enough to manually flash the chip every time
> you update grub but i think thats a buzzkill for >90% of the users ;)

Eerhm...
If Grub is the bootloader, wouldn't we just need to have a "signed" version of 
Grub?

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Joost