Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-07 Thread David Härdeman
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:06:24PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: hello david, thanks for your response and quick jump in! On Tue, 06 Jun 2006, David Härdeman wrote: I think a better approach (which I've suggested before) would be to have a list of devices that should be present before we tr

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On June 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Tue, 06 Jun 2006, David Härdeman wrote: > > > E.g. for root-on-lvm-on-crypto-on-lvm-on-raid-on-two-hds > > rootdeps=/dev/hda,/dev/hdb,/dev/md0,/dev/mapper/basevg-baselv,/dev/mapper/cryptdevice,/dev/mapper/mainvg-rootlv > > nack, this adds extra comple

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On June 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I guess this isn't very clear, but if you have an encrypted root > partition on top of lvm/evms/md, you have to point the root > variable to the underlying lvm/evms/md partition (this is a > limitation of how the current initramfs system works). Isn't ther

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-07 Thread maximilian attems
hello david, thanks for your response and quick jump in! On Tue, 06 Jun 2006, David Härdeman wrote: > I think a better approach (which I've suggested before) would be to have a > list of devices that should be present before we try to mount root. That > list could then contain md/lvm/evms/crypto

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
(hi again, David!) On June 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:05:15PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/cmdline > > root=/dev/mapper/croot ro > > this is obviously wrong, > current cryptsetup scripts expect the cryptoroot to b

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-06 Thread David Härdeman
Hey Maximilian, thanks for the CC. On Tue, June 6, 2006 1:05, maximilian attems said: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:05:15PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> root=/dev/mapper/croot ro > > this is obviously wrong, > current cryptsetup scripts expect the cryptoroot to be set by cryptopts, > try >

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-05 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:05:15PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.60 > Severity: normal > > > i have a system where the root block device is a LUKS device on top of > a logical volume: > > [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvs > LV VG Attr LSize Ori

Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

2006-06-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.60 Severity: normal i have a system where the root block device is a LUKS device on top of a logical volume: [0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% rt squeak0 -wi-ao 500.00M [0