Re: Mount order after systemd update

[Martin Manns <mmanns@gmx.net>]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:00:03 +0100
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.com>
wrote:

> That's what you get when your first recourse is Google rather than
> the manual that comes with your software on your computer.  (-:  The
> manual pages that you should be reading are:
>    * man -S 5 crypttab  # 
> (http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/crypttab.html)
>    * man -S 8 systemd-cryptsetup-generator  # 
> (http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/systemd-cryptsetup-generator.html)
>    * man -S 8 systemd-cryptsetup@.service.html  # 
> (http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/systemd-cryptsetup@.service.html)

Seriously, I doubt that any ordinary user finds this before migration,
i.e. when you do not have installed systemd, have you got those man
pages on your system?

Most important, being able to boot from an (encrypted) hard drive seems
crucial to me. What about adding information to the Wiki at
https://wiki.debian.org/systemd


> After reading them, you'll know that you should be finding out about 
> password agents:
>    * http://freedesktop.org./wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/
> 
> Plymouth is right there at the top of the list.

I will try it out.
 
> Yes, the plymouth documentation is from the Use The Source Luke
> school of badly written documentation.  You have to read the
> developer doco to even find a mention of the word "password", and
> even that's almost incidental.  Here's the source, Luke, for what

This does not increase my confidence in its stability though.


Martin