Re: Ignore or blacklist a disk from being brought up on boot

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On 08/26/2013 12:58 AM, Benjamin Kingston wrote:
> I have my boot partition on a pin protected flash drive and have
> embedded the encryption keyfile for my filesystem in my initramfs
> image to automate unlocking my computer with just the flash pin. The
> issue with this comes when generating the initramfs through dracut,
> because the boot disk is mounted and listed in /proc/self/mountinfo
> and gets a systemd entry that requires it to be brought online.
> 
> Since the keyfile is embedded in the image in ram the boot disk is not
> needed to be brought online, but since the USB is reset, this requires
> me to enter the pin on the flash drive a second time, just to unlock
> the volume to satisfy systemd.
> 
> is there a way to ignore a particular device when running dracut, or
> at least change its timeout and systemd status to not be boot
> effecting?


What is your kernel cmdline?
Where is the disk mounted in the initramfs?

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