[Yaird-devel] initramfs: cryptsetup-luks on external sdb becoming sda

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Hi Nils,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 01:35:43PM +0200, lkml at think-future.com wrote:
>I can use yaird config directive MAKEDEV "/dev/mapper/root" "/mnt" to 
>tell yaird it ought to handle the luks containers correctly. In 
>/etc/crypttab /dev/mapper/root is associated to /dev/sdb2 (which will 
>become /dev/sda2 !) so yaird will resolve the /dev/mapper/root device 
>to sdB and not sdA. Booting this initramfs will fail (neither is future 
>sdB a luks container nor is it what I want.. ;).

It seems to me that you are describing a variant of bug#340759.  Please 
read http://bugs.debian.org/340759 and consider adding to that bugreport 
- - by sending an email to 340759 at bugs.debian.org .

Perhaps you could test the patches included in on of the last posts in 
that report, and report back to the bugreport if you find it useful or 
not - that will help me decide if it should make it into yaird 
officially.


Actually, if you are interested, then I could use your help in 
maintaining yaird.  You need not be an official Debian developer.  Heck, 
you need not use Debian at all - just interest in yaird and perhaps a 
little perl knowledge is sufficient.


Thanks for your interest in yaird!


  - Jonas

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