Testing initramfs-tools integration

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:20:49PM +0100, Max Vozeler wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:30:44PM +0100, Max Vozeler wrote:

>> we could check if the currently booted system has its root
>> partition on loop-AES and output a strong warning in case the initramfs
>> being generated cannot be used to boot it.

> I have prepared a patch that shows a warning in case we detect root
> on loop but are not going to include loop-AES support, and in case
> the support is enabled but we couldn't figure out the correct
> options. This turned out to be tricky to integrate with the
> FORCE_LOOPAES feature, so it is dropped in the patch. Would you mind
> if we remove it?

Yes, I do. I see forced enabling as a warranty against various
failures; it more-or-less guarantees one has the tools in the
initramfs to mount a cryptoroot manually in the initramfs shell.

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Lionel