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Bug 451670

Summary: mkinitrd does not support encrypted block devices
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: David Lehman <dlehman>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.2CC: atodorov, mmatsuya
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rough patch to support encrypted block devices in rhel5 none

Description David Lehman 2008-06-16 16:02:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
We are adding support for installation to encrypted (LUKS) block devices for
5.3, so we will need mkinitrd to be able to create appropriate initrds to boot
these systems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-25

How reproducible:
Always with encrypted root or first swap.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up a system whose rootfs or first swap devices is encrypted w/ LUKS
2. run mkinitrd
3. examine the resulting initrd
  
Actual results:
initrd is not adequate to bring up the system

Expected results:
initrd brings up the system

Additional info:
I have a patch in the works which I will attach here eventually.
Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2008-06-16 16:30:30 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 3 David Lehman 2008-06-23 18:09:38 UTC 
Created attachment 310051 [details]
rough patch to support encrypted block devices in rhel5

This is a bit rough. Specifically, the blocks in findstoragedriverinsys were
lifted straight from F9's mkinitrd.
Comment 4 David Lehman 2008-07-23 01:18:39 UTC 
Fixed in mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-29.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 22:12:37 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0237.html