Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:13:39PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but /boot seems to be a very bad
> > choice for the location, simply because it is not available any earlier
> > than /var.
> 
> Ah, you are right.
> 
> So it seems only /etc is an option. Thanks.

Generally the console has to work even before root is mounted, so
that the user can enter a decryption password if necessary.

What is it that needs to be done before other filesystems are
mounted, but not before root is mounted?

Ben.

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