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grazzolini / dropbear_initrd_encrypt

Archlinux package for unlocking a encrypted root disk remotely using SSH.
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dropbear_initrd_encrypt on BeagleBone black #2

Closed strasharo closed 9 years ago

strasharo commented 9 years ago

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone has succeeded to have a fully encrypted Arch installation on a BeagleBone Black using dropbear_initrd_encrypt ? I have currently a working Raspberry PI B with FDE + remote unlock via ssh, which I set up using the instructions from https://gist.github.com/pezz/5310082 and http://blog.epijunkie.com/2014/01/raspberry-pi-arch-linux-fde-freeradius3-a-low-power-radius-server-for-wpa2-enterprise/, however since the boot configuration of the BBB is a bit different, I'm a little bit puzzled what has to be added (to uEnv.txt?) in order to get it working. :? Any tips and tricks are welcome. :)

Thank you.

grazzolini commented 9 years ago

I'm not familiar with the differences between the boot of the Raspberry PI and the BeagleBone Black. Also, both the instructions are a bit outdated, from what I saw. But, since this hook doesn't care for the boot process, if you can manage to get both your kernel and initramfs loaded, and at least have parameters passed to the kernel, it will work.

strasharo commented 9 years ago

Is there a place with up to date instructions for dropbear_initrd_encrypt?

grazzolini commented 9 years ago

I took a quick look yesterday at Uboot documentation. I don't know if it can load both a kernel and a initrd as other boot loaders can. But, you could probably load GRUB or other boot loader and have it load your kernel and initramfs. Without an actual hardware for testing, I can't really help you. The only thing this hook need is a network interface. As I mentioned, if you can make your initramfs load, it will run.

strasharo commented 9 years ago

Thanks a lot for the tips Giancarlo, really appreciated. :)