Re: Grub2 plain dm-crypt support

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:43:02 +0000
John Lane <address@hidden> пишет:

> On 09/11/14 19:31, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > Only the last commit which adds plain dm-crypt support is relevant.
> > And it is pretty much independent of the rest of grub. 
> I checked it out and tried unsuccessfully to build due to errors. I
> tried building branch merged into master and then I tried building
> "peter/devmapper" (I needed to cherry-pick commit
> fd0df6d098b1e6a4f60275c48a3ec88d15ba1fbb into the branch). Both builds
> ultimately failed with the same errors shown below.
> 

Sorry meant to answer earlier. Yes, apparently it was work in progress
that probably never compiled. Somebody would need to clean it up. If
you manage it, send a patch so branch can be updated.

> >
> > But the main problem as I see it is to identify disk that is needed.
> > LUKS is self identifying (you have UUID to find LUKS partition). But
> > how do you propose to search for partition containing plain dm-crypt?
> >
> I haven't got to the point where I've given this any thought beyond the
> fact that I know that (hd1,1) needs unlocking by plain dm-crypt.
>

You realize that hd1 is not guaranteed to always remain hd1 after
reboot?