Re: Bug#348147: more support for source.me (or other cryptoroot-enabling capacity)
On 11 Apr 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:41:57 -0400 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>
>> i also need this feature, or else some other viable alternative to
>> get cryptoroot support into an initramfs-tools-created initrd.
>
> Are you aware of the alternative ramdisk generator yaird?
>
> It might do what you want (I don't personally use cryptoroot, but
> others have reported success with it), but beware that the ramdisks
> generated by yaird are strictly for your current setup, not more
> generic ones as those of initrd-tools and initramfs-tools.
>
> Even if becoming happy with yaird, please consider still helping out
> improving initramfs-tools to _also_ satisfy your needs.
>
> Choice is good :-)
yaird works fine for me with lvm2 + dmcrypt; I have every
partition and swap encrypted.
manoj
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