Re: Ignore or blacklist a disk from being brought up on boot

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 08/26/2013 04:03 PM, Benjamin Kingston wrote:
> One more thing to add. There is a systemd target in
> /etc/systemd/system that mentions the ext4 filesystem on the pin
> protected flash drive by uuid
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Benjamin Kingston <list-ses8GfRmtAZWzAuRflr9/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> My commandline is as follows:
>> BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64
>> root=UUID=b5855018-5b09-4cbd-a7fc-0516dd5e7a0a ro
>> rd.lvm.vg.uuid=gK6vvj-uE7w-E6i0-nZOr-WtbN-cJbJ-gxd82v rd.dm=0
>> rd.luks.uuid=luks-770c95fa-3ce3-4908-a491-8710d679fa68
>> rd.md.uuid=613e00b8:220a6e5b:0caa4d15:e981bbb1
>> rd.md.uuid=01f167fc:5607540d:b2274dec:482834f2 vconsole.keymap=us
>> rd.fips fips=0 intel_iommu=pt rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.utf8
>>
>> The disk never gets mounted to my knowledge. When booted, autofs
>> mounts the disk in /mnt/usb/boot and the /boot folder is a symlink
>> that points there. Inside the initramfs this is duplicated (/boot
>> symlink to /mnt/usb/boot), which contains the encryption keyfile.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> On 08/26/2013 12:58 AM, Benjamin Kingston wrote:
>>>> I have my boot partition on a pin protected flash drive and have
>>>> embedded the encryption keyfile for my filesystem in my initramfs
>>>> image to automate unlocking my computer with just the flash pin. The
>>>> issue with this comes when generating the initramfs through dracut,
>>>> because the boot disk is mounted and listed in /proc/self/mountinfo
>>>> and gets a systemd entry that requires it to be brought online.
>>>>
>>>> Since the keyfile is embedded in the image in ram the boot disk is not
>>>> needed to be brought online, but since the USB is reset, this requires
>>>> me to enter the pin on the flash drive a second time, just to unlock
>>>> the volume to satisfy systemd.
>>>>
>>>> is there a way to ignore a particular device when running dracut, or
>>>> at least change its timeout and systemd status to not be boot
>>>> effecting?
>>>
>>>
>>> What is your kernel cmdline?
>>> Where is the disk mounted in the initramfs?
>>>

Why did you specify rd.fips and probably include the fips module?
Just to get /boot mounted?