On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 06:44:47PM -0400, Ray Strode wrote: > > What do others think? Should the LiveCD by default access and > > activate storage volumes, including encrypted partitions, on the hard > > disks? Should the LUKS prompts better identify the volume so that > > users know what passphrase to enter? > This seems like a misfeature in dracut for LiveCD or otherwise. > > The initrd should be about getting / mounted read-only and nothing else. > > There's a reason why plymouth doesn't identify the volume in the initrd. > Plymouth is graphical and so would need to ship fonts, font > renderering libraries, > and translations in the initrd to display text. That's a non-starter. > > It's okay though, because in most cases the user should only ever get > asked for one passphrase from the initrd, > so we don't need to show anything but a lock icon and an entry box. > > If that's no longer the case in a dracut world, we probably need to fix dracut. I agree that this is the best solution. Fix dracut to only activate and mount /. I found these bugs closed as NOTABUG: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512620 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524366 and this is the one I had just opened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525877 so if this is "working as intended" is there any chance of changing the default behavior to work as expected above? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
