From: Martin Flack <martin.flack@gmail.com>
To: sullentrapdoor <sullentrapdoor@airmail.cc>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Full Disk Encryption
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:03:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALNvAbcQ0nptNggH6Xo-5pTMDRtnpCgT7iuXZqxwamC3Z97M1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9071b3e-91b8-769e-57f1-aa502a362769@airmail.cc>
I would also be willing to tip for this! Someone do let us know if that's
possible.
Martin
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:44 PM sullentrapdoor <sullentrapdoor@airmail.cc>
wrote:
> Thank you Joshua!
>
> I appreciate you tracking down the commit (and committer). Searching
> Mikhail Tsykalov I did not find any way to give him a tip, but I did
> find a relevant issue that he published.
>
> > Guix System in current state can't boot from lvm partition because grub
> can't find
> kernel and initrd. This also applies to systems where /gnu/store is on
> lvm partition. Grub has lvm support in the form of "lvm" module, but it
> isn't loaded currently. Making grub config generator emit "insmod lvm"
> before grub starts accessing stuff on /gnu/store (so immediately after
> initial commit) will fix this.
>
> https://issues.guix.info/44877
>
>
> I am very new to Guix and Scheme so I am not sure how the aforementioned
> fixed can be implemented.
>
> On 12/22/20 6:21 PM, Joshua Branson wrote:
> > Hey sullentrapdoor@airmail.cc!
> >
> > Thanks for sharing that LVM support was added to guix! I had not heard
> > about that! That's awesome! And thanks Mikhail Tsykalov for committing
> > it! I'm pretty sure with a name like Mikhail, you have to be a genius.
> > Am I right?
> >
> > For the commit message, it looks like LVM support was added on
> > 11/25/2020. So like, really recently. It also looks like there has
> > only been one commit: The commit to package LVM, which includes the
> > comment that guix currently doesn't support root-on-LVM.
> >
> > My intuition tells me that currently guix does not support /root on
> > LVM. I suppose it's just a little difficult to get that support set up
> > at the moment. But you could always give Mikhail a financial tip to add
> > LVM /root support! I'll chip in $5 toward this goal if you do! Anyone
> > else that wants this support, feel free to respond with however much you
> > would donate for this support.
> >
> > Man this is super cool news! I've really wanted to play around with LVM
> > for quite some time now!
> >
> > --
> > Joshua Branson
> > Sent from Emacs and Gnus
> > https://gnucode.me
> > https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels
> > https://propernaming.org
> > "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help
> >
> > enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
>
--
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-24 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-21 8:54 Full Disk Encryption sullentrapdoor
2020-12-22 23:21 ` Joshua Branson
2020-12-24 19:41 ` sullentrapdoor
2020-12-24 23:03 ` Martin Flack [this message]
2020-12-25 10:36 ` Joshua Branson
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