GNU bug report logs - #21843
Generated grub.cfg does not support encrypted roots

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 15:53:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed, patch

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: 21843 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21843: Generated grub.cfg does not support encrypted roots
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 01:29:22 +0200

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Furthermore, to allow users to specify a LUKS UUID as the ‘source’ of
> their ‘mapped-device’ form, as in:
>
>    (mapped-device
>      (source (uuid "cb67fc72-0d54-4c88-9d4b-b225f30b0f44")) ;LUKS UUID
>      (target "root")
>      (type luks-device-mapping))
>
> we’d have to extend <mapped-device-kind> with a method to resolve UUIDs
> (in this case, to map a UUID to a /dev node.)

Commit ffba7d498d36618ad21af3961a1a685ae91bae57 makes it possible,
building on ‘find-partition-by-luks-uuid’ added in
a1ccefaa122df7c0045eda1fe6b65d83b65ed238.

(Tested on my system where /home is LUKS-encrypted.)

Ludo’.
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