Please don't do this.  I want my system left alone.


On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:41 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, April 10, 2016 10:04:42 AM James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 02:09:35 +0200
> >
> > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:
> > > I actually write my own initramfs because neither dracut not
> > > genkernel end up with a convenient boot system.
> > >
> > > I have 2 disks, both encrypted.
> > > I prefer only to enter the decryption password once. Both Dracut and
> > > Genkernel insist on asking for the password/key for every single disk.
> >
> > Dracut on RHEL actually handles this out of the box. Might be worth
> > finding out how.
>
> Might have even been fixed in a more recent version of Dracut.
> I just have passed the point where I am interested in it enough to try it.
> The
> initramfs I use gets embedded into the kernel and doesn't need any kernel
> parameters to work.
>
> It does what it needs to do with minimal work. The simplicity should also
> make
> it faster than the scripts generated by either Dracut or genkernel. (As
> they
> need to parse the kernel cmdline and try to figure out static details on
> the
> fly)
>
> --
> Joost

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