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Please don't do this. I want my system left alone. |
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:41 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sunday, April 10, 2016 10:04:42 AM James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 02:09:35 +0200 |
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> > "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > I actually write my own initramfs because neither dracut not |
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> > > genkernel end up with a convenient boot system. |
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> > > I have 2 disks, both encrypted. |
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> > > I prefer only to enter the decryption password once. Both Dracut and |
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> > > Genkernel insist on asking for the password/key for every single disk. |
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> > Dracut on RHEL actually handles this out of the box. Might be worth |
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> > finding out how. |
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> Might have even been fixed in a more recent version of Dracut. |
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> I just have passed the point where I am interested in it enough to try it. |
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> The |
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> initramfs I use gets embedded into the kernel and doesn't need any kernel |
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> parameters to work. |
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> It does what it needs to do with minimal work. The simplicity should also |
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> make |
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> it faster than the scripts generated by either Dracut or genkernel. (As |
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> they |
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> need to parse the kernel cmdline and try to figure out static details on |
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> the |
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> fly) |
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> -- |
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> Joost |
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