GNU bug report logs - #37851
Grub installation only checks for encrypted /boot folder

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Message #16 received at 37851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Miguel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37851 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37851: Grub installation only checks for encrypted /boot
 folder
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:12:49 +0200

Hola Miguel,

Miguel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835 <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Attached can be found a workaround to mount all encrypted partitions.
> There is no way to tell the devices to mount without changing
> boot-parameters, where I'd add another field with the needed mapped
> devices (a traversal onto the mapped-device dependency tree
> of /gnu/store).  Do you think this is a good idea?  At least I think
> it's the best way to encode the dependencies into the grub.cfg file,
> even though the typical graph will contain 0 or 1 nodes.

> From 9b50e2d8eb8b744595a54a9543993eb4e3813742 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Miguel=20=C3=81ngel=20Arruga=20Vivas?=
>  <rosen644835 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:35:02 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] system: Mount luks devices on boot.
>
> * gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (grub-configuration-file)[builder]: Mount all
> encrypted partitions.
> ---
>  gnu/bootloader/grub.scm | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm b/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
> index d984d5f5e3..b29477ec71 100644
> --- a/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
> +++ b/gnu/bootloader/grub.scm
> @@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ keymap ~a~%" keymap)))))
>            (format port
>                    "# This file was generated from your Guix configuration.  Any changes
>  # will be lost upon reconfiguration.
> +cryptomount -a

Does that cause GRUB to mount all the LUKS partitions it was aware of at
installation time, or does it cause it to scan all the partitions in
search of a LUKS signature?

In the latter case that wouldn’t be great, but in the former case it
sounds like we could go ahead (well, with a comment above explaining
what this does.  :-)).

Thanks for working on it!

Ludo’.

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