[PATCH] mkinitrd rescue mode - now crypto

[W. Michael Petullo]

>>         Only reason I seem to need nash at all, right now, is for the
>> "makerootdev" command and the "switchroot" command (busybox has
>> pivot_root, but not switchroot, and I can ignore the "setquiet" noise).
>> With those two functions, I could dump nash entirely and operate totally
>> from busybox with a minimal increase in size.  Which raises some other
>> questions regarding busybox...
>
> I too am running an entirely encrypted disk (LVM in dmcrypt no less,
> so I get auto volume detection)... I pretty much solved it the same
> way you did, I kept nash around for switchroot and change to ash for
> everything else so I could interact with the password prompt.

I have been maintaining a patch for Fedora's mkinitrd that adds support
for encrypted root filesystems.  The patch may be found at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124789

Currently, my system requires that the boot partition and encryption key
reside together on a removable disk.

--
Mike