[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#465763: Bug#465763: Bug#465763: cryptsetup: can't boot from USB device

[Jonas Meurer]

On 17/02/2008 Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> 2008/2/16, Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org>:
> > > But it doesn't work for USB devices, because cryptsetup is called too
> > > early. In such case there is missing following step:
> > >
> > > 0. sleep $cryptsourcedelay
> >
> > If i got it right, your statement is untrue. rootdelay is implemented in
> > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/udev, which is executed
> > before any cryptsetup action is done in
> 
> You're wrong, because the local-premount is called *after* local-top actions.
> See:

udev is not run in *LOCAL*-premount, but in *INIT*-premount, and the
init-{top,premount} scripts are invoked before local-* or nfs-* scripts:

$ grep -e "/scripts/" /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init
. /scripts/functions
run_scripts /scripts/init-top
[ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/init-premount"
run_scripts /scripts/init-premount
. /scripts/${BOOT}
[ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/init-bottom"
run_scripts /scripts/init-bottom

${BOOT} is either "local" or "nfs". Do you still object?

> $ grep Running /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/locals
>         [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/local-top"
>         [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/local-premount"
>         [ "$quiet" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/local-bottom"
> 
> The cryptsetup is called in local-top, the rootdelay is called after
> local-top and before local-premount. It is too late for cryptsetup!

why do you think that rootdelay is called between local-top and
local-premount? do you have any evidence?

greetings,
 jonas