From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RVyAk-0002Vj-2j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:22:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5338E21C13B; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F5921C130 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 04:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnr1 with SMTP id r1so1804421ggn.40 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:21:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=gJ6LF8PXLNZ3LQaTz9jztqbJ9JEewcqRJMB9TV8BXK0=; b=iURhwQYwqRM6CkOqEaXvybz9Hh0ls+pTgJVmKye62B6a/91kriSBWwLZJDCXjF5KDc NPutud9r+A+uFuf3I1QgvOhU8dR4uKUFhDH4jYmtLUYU4+0f3iHiQgZ6m22GtncZ2v3m 2/igzcNbFBUAAbZQhNchNyM7c/uFVlZOoNM0s= Received: by 10.236.121.168 with SMTP id r28mr8767482yhh.45.1322713265172; Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-85.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j18sm3309947ani.0.2011.11.30.20.21.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:21:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED700AC.5060400@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:21:00 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Full disk encryption References: <20111130152753.176a9a08@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <4ED67664.1060302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8245c2a0-8a73-4e47-849c-d17b199cc863 X-Archives-Hash: 5ec0d054683e5c08f2a3653f569a85f4 Jack Byer wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I >> tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped >> the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think. >> The unofficial wiki. >> > I had some difficulties because the way I was doing things before with my > homebrew solution was... non-standard. > > The problem areas that I remember from the transition were: setting the USE > flags correctly to build the modules I needed, initially confusing > dracutmodules and add_dracutmodules in dracut.conf (actually you probably > don't even need to edit that file at all), making sure to have a sane > /etc/fstab line for the root file system and passing the right root= kernel > command line. root=UUID=... works the best in my experience. > > > I did change the USE flags for the packages it said to. I think some things have changed or something, maybe openrc?, and the script I was copying and working with just didn't work. Maybe it needs updating or something. I'm hoping to see a up-to-date howto or someone will post a good up-to-date howto for dracut. Something even a idiot could follow. I think it will work for me then. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!