From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 48649-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Juraj Hlista <juraj@juraj.me>
Subject: bug#48649: Guix doesn't boot with LUKS root partition
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 00:11:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dgbtrbo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnr46npf.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Tue, 08 Jun 2021 23:39:08 +0200")
Hello,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
> Juraj Hlista 写道:
>> Not sure how the i915 module is related to LUKS though.
>
> Not, all all. You should see the same apparent ‘freeze’ when booting
> the system without LUKS with ‘--repl’ on the kernel command line.
>
> Linux prompts for the LUKS passphrase early, and (obviously :-) before
> the root file system is mounted. The kernel needs to display this
> prompt. The root file system contains all drivers. See the deadlock?
>
> Adding i915 to the initrd will ensure that it is loaded before the
> initrd tries to mount / and asks you for the passphrase, so
> everything will work fine. Building i915 into the kernel would have
> the same effect.
Seems this issue was about not having a required video driver in the
init RAM disk, rather than LUKS support.
Closing.
Glad you got it solved!
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-24 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-25 9:24 bug#48649: Guix doesn't boot with LUKS root partition Juraj Hlista
2021-05-25 11:19 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-05-25 12:12 ` Juraj Hlista
2021-05-25 17:19 ` Juraj Hlista
2021-05-26 9:23 ` Juraj Hlista
2021-06-08 17:24 ` Eric Brown
2021-06-08 21:39 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-08-24 4:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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