[SGVLUG] Chromebook and the future of secure boot

[Dan Kegel]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM, John Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
>> Probably all DRM will be disabled if you flip that
>> switch.  I hadn't expected dual-booting to be prohibited,
>> though.
>
> Please pardon my ignorance.  If it's as easy as flipping a switch, why
> can't the switch simply be flipped as necessary before booting?

I guess if you flip the switch, shrink the original filesystem,
repartition the hard drive, then flip the switch back,
you may have already changed the system enough to
make the drm check fail.
I haven't looked into whether that's how it works, this is just a guess.