[[!meta title="Bootless: anti-tampering bootloader"]]

**WARNING** - this pre-alpha software with [portuguese-only docs](index.pt)!

* Bootless is a scheme allowing a computer with encrypted disk to stay without attached bootloader in order to make more difficult to tamper the initialization process.
* Bootless is a bootloader installed in a removable media and used to initialize computers.
* It is based on [git-annex](http://git-annex.branchable.com/) and [GNU Grub](https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/).
* Initial support is targeted to Debian like operating systems.
* Bootless currently used the [Hydra Suite](https://git.sarava.org/?p=hydra.git;a=summary).

Index
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TODO
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- Cleanup and translate docs.
- Setup issue tracker.
- Add contact information.
- Split bootless script from hydra suite but preserve integration.
- Add pre-built and signed images.

References
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Git:

  * http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/10/7/331471
  * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37219/how-do-you-remove-a-specific-revision-in-the-git-history
  * http://www.alexrothenberg.com/2009/06/changing-history-with-git-rebase-how-to.html
  * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/250238/collapsing-a-git-repositorys-history

Grub:

  * [Grub2](https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2) (Ubuntu Help).
  * [GRUB2 Manual](http://grub.enbug.org/Manual) (Wiki).
  * [Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process](http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/grub.html).
  * [GNU Grub Manual](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html).

Boot:

- [Auto-booting and Securing a Linux Server with an Encrypted Filesystem](http://serverfault.com/questions/34794/auto-booting-and-securing-a-linux-server-with-an-encrypted-filesystem).
- [Smartmonster](https://github.com/ioerror/smartmonster).

Images:

  * [How can I mount a disk image?](http://superuser.com/questions/344899/how-can-i-mount-a-disk-image).
  * [GRUB 2 - OSDev](http://wiki.osdev.org/GRUB_2): instalando o grub em várias mídias distintas.
  * [Disk mounting](http://www.noah.org/wiki/Disk_mounting).
  * [Loop-mounting partitions from a disk image](http://madduck.net/blog/2006.10.20:loop-mounting-partitions-from-a-disk-image/ Loop-mounting partitions from a disk image).

UEFI:

  * [gummiboot](http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot/).
  * [booting a self-signed Linux kernel | The Linux Foundation](http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/09/booting-self-signed-linux-kernel).