[Yaird-devel] Bug#355074: yaird: not a bug

[Mark Hedges]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Jonathan Kleinehellefort wrote:
> 
> I ran into the same problem and think this cannot be considered a bug.
> 
> /usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init is really complaining about /dev/console
> missing on the new cryptoroot, which is caused by this step:
> 
>     cp -ax / /mnt
> 
> Because a tmpfs is mounted over /dev by udev, this command will fail to
> copy any device nodes under /dev. This can be resolved by mounting /
> a second time and then copying the files over:
> 
>     mount /dev/path_to_old_root /oldroot
>     cp -a /oldroot/* /mnt

Thanks for your reply.  Yes I eventually figured out that is 
what it complained about, thanks to some feedback on dm-crypt.  
I planned to try to recreate the device files for console and 
null with mknod in the cryptoroot.  But I haven't had time to 
get back to it.

And to be honest, running encrypted partitions is so incredibly 
slow that I may reformat and use luks only for /home.

Mark