On 10/04/2009 11:35 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
Dracut currently tries to find and activate all RAID, LVM, and LUKS partitions on the hard disks when booting the LiveCD. Several of my systems are made up of many RAID, LVM, and LUKS partitions in various combinations. Booting the LiveCD now goes and activates these and asks for passphrases that I have to "skip over" by entering blank/bogus values to get the system to boot up. I now know that you can pass various "rd_*" options such as "rd_NO_LUKS" to grub to have dracut skip these things, but I was hoping for something better, perhaps a "skip" button. The new behavior makes the LiveCD less independent of and more "tied" to the existing installations on the hard disk. This is surprising and unexpected. Many uses of LiveCD's expect that the live environment will be completely independent of, and unaffected by, what is on the hard disk. This is no longer true. It may be confusing for users of LiveCD's when an (unidentified) passphrase input text box pops up when booting the LiveCD. 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? I would prefer a LiveCD that doesn't do anything to the hard disk at all, at least by default when booting up. It should be "self-contained". Perhaps we should create another entry in syslinux.cfg that enables rd_NO_LUKS by default, and call it "Boot without accessing hard disk".
Hi, Thanks for bringing this up. I'll create a patch for the scripts generating the livecd to add rd_NO_LUKS to the normal livecd syslinux.cfg entry. I already was planning on doing this, but I forgot. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
