On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:31:00 -0600, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
[snip] > I tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I > scraped the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo > wiki I think. The unofficial wiki. I posted a couple of months ago that you should "watch this space" for a small and simple initramfs solution. That still applies. I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc. This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a more sensible set of executables for an initramfs. All of the code I have written myself compiles and links statically, typically using klibc, so my finished code is tiny. I haven't been working on this for a couple of months now, because the need for it is not really pressing. The assertion that udev would require /usr and /var (plus the kitchen sink) really soon is unfounded, at least for those of us who run more elderly hardware. Anyhow, when I'm finished there will be a zsh script that will build an initramfs image, and even install it to /boot, with a single command. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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