Re: Full Disk Encryption

[Martin Flack]

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
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> >    https://propernaming.org
> >    "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help
> >
> > enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
>


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Martin