[ltp] Hard disk password & linux

[Peter B. West]

Vijay Garla wrote:
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> 
> So, to summarize, has anybody set their hdd password?  No big deal - 
> I'll give it a shot, but I'd like to create an image of my harddrive 
> first, just in case (again, bad experiences mucking with partitions and 
> the hard drive in the past).

Vijay,

I set mine not long after I got the machine, before I installed Gentoo, 
IIRC.  No problems.  When I boot, I have to give the system and disk 
passwords before I get to the grub screen.

fdisk works quite happily on the drive, and Windows boots OK.

Peter
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