Re: mkinitrd update discussion/survey

> 	b)	Kept forgetting to unmount my ramdisks and dd them to to initrd
> 		before rebooting.
Why'd you do this? Did you change files of the initrd from within the initrd?

> > Anyone else got thoughts here? I'd like to revamp the boot process to
> > allow for this kind of stuff easily.
> I'm on 6 weeks vacation and so I'll do you one better ... I should be
> able to do a proof-of-concept implementation , end-to-end, and send
> it to the list (all you really need is a list of what's there, and the
> /linuxrc).
> 
> But (odd as it may sound, since I'm subscribed to this list) I haven't
> got a rock-linux system, so the system will be tested with gentoo.
> 
> Since the only thing done after root is mounted should be
> 	pivot_root . /boot
> 	cd /
> 	mount --move /boot/proc proc
> 	mount --move /boot/dev dev
> 	mount --move /boot/sys sys
> 	exec /sbin/init "$@"
> or something to that effect, it should work just as well with rock.
I've done an implementation of this using an initrd over the weekend (sorry, I just got hooked on the idea and starting coding...) that uses loop-aes to encrypt the rootfs. I'm going to send the patch to submaster later this day as soon as I got swap encryption up and running (can't reboot the laptop right now for a few reasons not worth meantioning).
We should then stick our heads together on that issue.

> I DO have it on my todo list to reboot my dual-amd64 from one of
> your (i386) boot-disks and bootstrap an amd64 rocklinux, but that is
> probably more time consuming (Mostly 'cause I'm an anal bastard ;-)
> and I'll probably need to wait until I've reassembled my laptop.
That sounds great!

Greetings,
	blindy
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