Re: [Trustedgrub-users] Research on trsuted boot techniques using TPM

[Marcel S. <m.s...@si...>]

Hi Dinesh,

> my root file system is ext3.

ok, no problem here ;)

> from the console, I can read files inside (hd0,0) [my ext2 boot partition].
> But nothing from my ext3 root partition. This is weird.

Indeed, can you dump me your partition table:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

> I can move my checkfile into boot. However the file I want to check are in
> root. So I need to see why TGRUB cant read my root partition before I go
> forward.

I assume, that this is not an issue with TrustedGRUB, but with GRUB itself. I'll
 try to reproduce this issue, as soon as I got your partition table.

> Also, I copied /etc/passwd to /boot/passwd and changed the checkfile with the
> sha1sum of /boot/passwd<space>(hd0,0)/passwd<enter>.

So it looks like this?

2019f8428c46073a4e201fec090443144994daac (hd0,0)/passwd

Make sure, that no further empty lines below your entry exists...

Marcel
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