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dracut
- Locked root partition
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ZFSBootMenu boots root dataset just fine but doesn't ask for password even though it's encrypted???
Upstream has been telling people not to use a central configuration file for 8 years so nobody should really be putting anything in there to begin with. One can make a reasonable argument that ZFSBootMenu ought to override the configuration file just like it overrides the configuration drop-in directory, but another can make a reasonable argument that people who really know what they want may wish to load common configuration options for both their system and ZBM images in /etc/dracut.conf.
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Can't turn off the machine after install with full disk encryption
I absolutely have no idea... Seems like somehow something is not supported. You should create an issue in the dracut repo: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues. That's something you should probably everywhere like I did in my issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/11ofqt2/booting_with_dinit. The void community can sometimes be really unhelpful so I hope you will get help there.
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What happened to the bugzilla 1529311? it's about AMD microcode
bug 1529311 is closed as duplicate of bug 1476039 which was fixed by https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0964 included in dracut-033-535.el7. These patches were mentioned in 1476039: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/19453dc8744e6a59725c43b61b2e3db01cb4c57c and https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/261. Also it was mentioned that it was fixed in
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/boot/initramfs.. and the early boot process
It's a shell script that sets up some basics and runs an event loop to run hooks that eventually lead to the availability of your root device.
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Can bluetooth keyboards work to enter luks password?
dracut can build initrd with bluetooth support
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Has anyone setup a private tracker?
The documentation is super minimal, but the livenet module supports torrent files using the live:torrent: URL syntax.
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Are cheap wireless keyboards from Lazada and Shopee compatible for Linux? (POV: I live in the Philippines and I have to do online shopping cuz of the pandemic)
Nope, all these environments are missing initial device configuration required for keyboard to be able to connect. (There was an attempt to add bluetooth support into dracut, that didn't go well)
- Failed to Start setup virtual console
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Dracut kernel_cmdline not working with LVM on LUKS.
I get exactly this error. So it turns out, the decryption depends on a systemd unitsystemd-cryptsetup-generator, which will not read any embedded cmdline parameters, only ones passed in the commandline so when the commandline parameter is asking to decrypt things, it is not generated.
mkinitcpio
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Secure boot -- Sign kernel with pacman hook
This file has been changed recently and the wiki still references the old line. You have to modify this line now:
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Why use a bootloader? Just boot directly into a unified kernel image
mkinitcpio is an arch thing: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio
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I share a pacman improvement idea
The Arch Linux devs don't have infinite time and energy, so yes less-important issues that affect less users get diprioritized. You're welcome to PR the fix yourself, here's the mkinitcpio repo: https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio
- Fix for warnings when upgrading kernel?
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NVIDIA power management not working when modules are in initramfs
The general logic was changed in the new mkinitcpio release. https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/pull/54/files
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Problems when booting after every kernel update
That's an odd one since reinstalling the package fixes the issue. I wouldn't be so sure it's grub because it just loads the vmlinuz and initramfs that are suffixed with the pkgbase. That will not change based on the kernel version and pkgrel version. Someone brought up needing a hook. the mkinitcpio package already installs hooks and scripts necessary for maintaining a mkinitcpio prefix for each kernel for the initramfs image generation and installing vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-${pkgbase} on upgrades. Everyone with the official mkinitcpio package is going to have the same /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio-install shell script. Running grub-mkconfig is pointless for a kernel upgrade for the reason stated. All it does is export variables from /etc/default/grub and concatenates /etc/grub.d/* into a single config file. If there was a grub config issue it's unlikely you would ever be able to boot.
- mkinitcpio v31 released
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Has your Arch system ever broken?
mkinitcpio made zstd the default on 2021-02-17
- What bootloader do you use and why?
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Arch Linux - News: Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio
The number of thread is, but the compression level isn't. Because -3 is a sane default for the compression level in time of compression time and output file size, but this can differ for your machine. I find that on my machine best compression level is -15 or -16 for size and compression time. Since it will take a 1 second more to compress but it will yield a file 80% more compressed than the default. Here is the pill request where the defaults where changed mkinitcpio#47
What are some alternatives?
yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition
sbctl - :computer: :lock: :key: Secure Boot key manager
zfsbootmenu - ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
mortar - Framework to join Linux's physical security bricks.
systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager
svntogit-packages - Automatic import of svn 'packages' repo (read-only mirror)
squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images
efifs - EFI FileSystem drivers
wireguard-initramfs - Use dropbear over wireguard.
bootmgr - A configuration framework for EFI boot entries
ramroot - Load root file system to ram during boot.
dracut-sshd - Provide SSH access to initramfs early user space on Fedora and other systems that use Dracut