on 7-27-2008 7:14 PM D Steward spake the following: >> Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the >> hard drive. > > If the purpose of the encrypted bootloader was to load an encrypted > filesystem/s, then there must be a spare MBR on your drive somewhere. > Its not standard to have more than one MBR, but my spidey sense is > tingling and telling me any half-decent software encryption software > wouldnt rely on a single fragile point of failure such as an mbr which > is easily overwritten by viruses and installations. > > Providing you are still on the net, send an email to one of your tech > guys asking for either the location of the spare MBR, or if there isnt > one, a new MBR to replace yours - they should have a copy of your > original. > Alternatively, if you know the name of the software package doing all > this, you may be able to find (if you have a spare MBR) out on the net. > FWIW, I wouldnt bother any PHB's with this - they will definitely not be > amused. Or the installer might have created some sort of rescue disk. If the corporate IT guys installed the disk encryption, they probably have a corporate "back door" disk for this. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080728/76a35277/attachment-0003.sig>