FS#11524 - cryptkey on external drive (ex. SD/MMC)
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Opened by Manuel C. (ekerazha) - Friday, 19 September 2008, 11:28 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 07 June 2009, 23:31 GMT
Opened by Manuel C. (ekerazha) - Friday, 19 September 2008, 11:28 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 07 June 2009, 23:31 GMT
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I open a "Support Request" this time (on the forum nobody
could help me), I think this isn't a bug.
I want to decrypt the root partition using a keyfile on an external drive (ex. SD/MMC, but I had the same issue using a USB stick). So I tried to add to the mkinitcpio.conf file these MODULES "mmc_core sdhci nls_cp437 vfat" and I added to the kernel line of grub/menu.lst cryptkey=/dev/mmcblk0p1:vfat:/myfile.key but booting the system, it says "Keyfile could not be opened. Reverting to passphrase.". Note that removing/inserting the SD card, it DOES detect the card (I receive the message of device removed etc.). What could it be? Thank you very much. |
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Comment by Manuel C. (ekerazha) -
Friday, 19 September 2008, 18:55 GMT
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) -
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 20:09 GMT
Comment by Manuel C. (ekerazha) -
Thursday, 04 December 2008, 14:11 GMT
I've also tried /dev/disk/by-id/mmc......etc. inside cryptkey
(instead of /dev/mmcblk0p1), but it still doesn't work.
There's a weird bug in mkinitcpio, use a filename without dots and
dashes.
I've already spent many days trying to make this work, without
success, but I have no more time now. So I reverted to the
passphrase method. Atm, I think you could close this task.