Re: [9front] Booting with encrypted partitions

[petter9@bissa.eu]

I like having the hook before the loop now too, as cinap suggested.  In 
the scenario of a user having a partition decryption command in this 
hook and aborting the password prompt; they can now try their different 
boot options without having an annoying password prompt appearing all 
the time.  (The prompt is just a reboot away should they want it again.)

diff -r 8f9f3ee2eacf sys/src/9/boot/bootrc
--- a/sys/src/9/boot/bootrc	Mon Nov 11 13:35:47 2019 -0800
+++ b/sys/src/9/boot/bootrc	Wed Nov 20 11:55:12 2019 +0100
@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@
  # add partitions and binds
  configlocal
  
+# execute hook 'startcmd' from plan9.ini
+if(! ~ $#startcmd 0) {
+	echo $startcmd
+	eval $startcmd
+}
+
  while(){
  	@{main}



I went with 'startcmd', which is still open for debate..


I can help with updating the fqa if something like this patch is committed.


Come to think of; there's also the possibility of having a bootrc.local 
(mimicking termrc and cpurc).  I actually think that seems like a better 
path going forward, but i haven't made any attempts at that.


--
Petter