Re: TPM chip and Grub bootloader

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Marco Gerards <address@hidden> [070531 18:40]:
> > You do not need a TPM based system. Todays BIOSes prohibit flashing
> > anything not signed by the vendor using SMI and hardware lockdown
> > mechanisms. You are locked out already, even though you might not care
> > or know yet.
> 
> That sounds terrible.  How do you deal with this for LinuxBIOS?

currently by pulling the chip and writing it in an external flash
writer. But that is a bad option for the people out there without this
kind of equipment.

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