Dne st 12. července 2006 16:32 Michael Olbrich napsal(a): > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:56:54PM +0200, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade my laptop from stable to testing including new > > kernel. My problem is, all partitions are encrypted except /boot and for > > security reasons I have encryption keys stored on encrypted USB flash > > disk. > > > > I used kernel 2.6.13 and mkinitrd with my script, which detects plugged > > USB flashdisk, set up and mount dm-crypted partition on it (asking for a > > password) and using information and scripts stored there to set up > > dm-crypted partitions on harddisk. > > > > Problem is, I can't find a way how to configure yaird to ignore encrypted > > disks and let my script set it up. And i didn't find a way to configure > > it properly via /etc/crypttab. > > Why should yaird ignore the encrypted disks? Afaik it should be able to > handle your configuation. What exactly is the problem with /etc/crypttab? > And what is the overall problem anyway? Does yaird fail to create the > initrd or it it missing things? Some error messages would help.
Problems with /etc/crypttab are: 1) I'm not using it at all, because it is located on encrypted partition and at the moment, when it become accessible is everything already set up. 2) when I setup information in crypttab according to my needs, i got message "yaird error: encrypted device 'root' has keyfile specified in /etc/crypttab:6. This is not supported. (fatal)". And after some RTFM I found "If the source of the passphrase is something other than the console, abort. There are too many variables to support this reliably." Mixi
