/root encryption is still broken

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Mar 1 01:47:59 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:59 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:17:27 -0500,  Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > It's bug 435228.
> 
> I took a look at the info you had, and will try to figure out some way to use
> it. Unfortunately on a fresh install, you can't (as far as I can tell) get
> a vt after the install is complete (before rebooting) in order to rerun
> mkinitrd. 

VT switch was working for me on Wednesday -- has it been broken (...
again)?

> Today's rawhide isn't out yet, so I am going to take a look and see if I can
> figure out if a patch got applied already. It might be easier to just wait
> for the rawhide push if that's the case. Otherwise there probably is a
> way to do it with a rescue disk.

The patch hasn't been pushed into mkinitrd yet and there was still some
back and forth as to what works and what doesn't I believe...

Jeremy




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