Re: dracut 005 question

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

Am 15.03.2011 11:43, schrieb Amadeusz Żołnowski:
> 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

Fedora 15 has dracut-008 ... should work on older systems, too