Demand for LUKS password blocks boot

[Bryn M. Reeves]

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 10:07 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
> > The OP has some external encrypted disks that are not critical to system
> > operation.  Other functions of the system are critical.  The system is
> > configured to reboot when power is restored after a power failure.  If
> > the system is unattended and an encrypted disk is attached the boot
> > process will wait for forever for the password until it proceeds.  I
> > think you can see the issue should this happen at 3AM Saturday....
> > 
> > The suggestion of rd_LUKS_timeout=<X seconds> would allow the boot to
> > proceed *without* the encrypted disk being mounted.
> > 
> > 
> Where do you find the doc for this? I tried the man page for cryptosetup, which 
> suggests the non-existant luks.endorphin.org, looked in the kernel source and 
> kernel-parameters.txt file, googled for rd_LUKS_ and generally found nothing.

I think it was a suggestion of something that would be good to implement
(that came out of the discussion of the OP's problem booting) rather
than something that's already there and ready for use. ;)

Cheers,
Bryn.