From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: dracut 005 question Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:24:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4D7F4C7D.1040205@redhat.com> References: <1300101485-sup-8139@ittemni> <1300181816-sup-175@ittemni> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1300181816-sup-175@ittemni> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: =?UTF-8?B?QW1hZGV1c3ogxbtvxYJub3dza2k=?= Cc: initramfs Am 15.03.2011 11:43, schrieb Amadeusz =C5=BBo=C5=82nowski: > 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 t= o >> me this version of dracut actually dropped support of key on externa= l >> device entirely? >=20 > I don't know how Fedora releases the packages, but support for keys o= n > 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. >=20 >=20 >> 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 i= s >> the same for dracut 008? Do I have to install latests plymouth-scrip= ts >> 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? >=20 > You can try using source package from sf.net. >=20 >=20 > [0] > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/files/dracut-007.tar.bz2/downl= oad >=20 > [1] > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dracut/files/dracut-008.tar.bz2/downl= oad =46edora 15 has dracut-008 ... should work on older systems, too