Re: dracut 005 question

["Amadeusz Żołnowski" <aidecoe-2qtfh70TtYba5EbDDlwbIw@public.gmane.org>]

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Excerpts from jaivuk's message of Tue Mar 15 10:25:06 +0100 2011:
> Let me tell you what I want to achieve here - I have a host with
> several luks partitions using the same key and I want them to be
> unlocked by plugging USB stick with the key during the boot and not
> typing the key via the keyboard at any stage.
>
> I managed to install F14 with dracut-006-6.fc14 and I configured
> second key and I assumed it will work. But it didn't. To my surpsire I
> do not see rd_LUKS_KEYDEV_UUID anywhere in the 90crypt/* folder. I
> searched whole modules.d and I did not find it either. So it looks to
> me this version of dracut actually dropped support of key on external
> device entirely?

I don't know how Fedora releases the packages, but support for keys on
external device *started* with 007 [0]. And with 008 [1] parameters
names have changed. With 008 logic of probing devices for key has
changed. You might want to try how it behaves for your case.


> What I would like to do now is to install dracut 008 (or the latest
> version) in my F14 and try my USB key with it. I checked dracut 006
> has dependency on plymouth-scripts, can you please advise me if it is
> the same for dracut 008? Do I have to install latests plymouth-scripts
> or is it optional?
> And can you please give me any hint what is the best way of upgrade
> from 006 to the latest one?

You can try using source package from sf.net.


[0]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/files/dracut-007.tar.bz2/download

[1]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/files/dracut-008.tar.bz2/download
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