If it early open encrypted partitions, we can have encrypted 'mgalive-persist'. It could also after that scan LVM so those of us who want to have both 'mgalive-persist' and swap on a fast large USP stick have them in the same encrypted partition which then is a LVM pv.
Assignee: bugsquad => isobuild
A bit curious that processing LUKS encrypted partitions on disk drive is different than processing same on bootable USB?
CC: (none) => paul.blackburn
The Mageia-8 Live ISOs support encrypted persistent partitions. Verified using the Mageia-8-alpha1-Live-GNOME-x86_64 ISO. I think supporting LVM would be a step to far. If you have a large fast USB stick, you would do better using the classical installer to do a regular install, which gives you all the options. Let's keep the Live ISOs relatively simple. Setting to fixed, as I have done half the request!
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => mageia
Right, it is not very useful to have LVM on persistent storage. But big plus if it can handle LVM and LVM in an encrypted partition on another drive. Question: If i boot MGA8 a live stick, does it carry enough functionality to manually from CLI unlock an encrypted partition on another drive and mounting partitions in an LVM? (even better if it is (semi)automatic)) That would be a very useful backup/repair use case for people like me who have their machines using LVM in encrypted partition(s). I use system-rescue-cd for that now, but even better if Mageia live would work, and especially when it is so easy to have persistent encrypted storage on Mageia stick for backung up and also editing sensitive things.
Once you've booted the Live system, you should have all the maintenance tools you need. If you find something is missing, let me know, and I will add it. Xfce makes it very easy to mount other partitions. It puts icons for all drives/partitions it can find on the desktop. If you double click on an encrypted partition, it asks you for the passphrase and then automounts it. I've not tested it with LVM (because I don't use LVM), but I'd guess it makes that equally easy. The Mageia 8 Live ISOs boot much faster than those in previous releases, so are much more usable for a quick rescue.
Marting, thank you for the quick and thorough reply. You got me really interested in jumping in on the iso testing :)
commit 0cee55d5a1b60cc67a623f0b107a950633ed72fc Author: Jybz <j.biernacki@...> Date: Sat Apr 20 22:22:14 2024 +0200 Updated to support encrypted persistent partition and fix mga#25924. - origin: https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/dracut/current/SOURCES/0511-mgalive-A-module-to-mount-Mageia-Live-media.patch?r1=1368035&r2=1469756 - mgalive: support encrypted persistent partitions (mga#25191) - mgalive: fix boot failure on some machines (mga#25924) --- Commit Link: https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/mageia-dracut-conf/commit/?id=0cee55d5a1b60cc67a623f0b107a950633ed72fc Bug links: Mageia https://bugs.mageia.org/25191 https://bugs.mageia.org/25924