nash vs. bash

Bryan W. Headley bwheadley at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 19 19:22:33 UTC 2004


fedora-list wrote:

>hello group
>
>i am trying to encrypt my rootdisk with fc3 test3, device-mapper and dm-crypt. for this reason i have to build my own initrd which asks 
>me for the password/key to encrypt the rootdisk.
>
>now i run in to the problem, that nash isn't capable to get userinput. even if i copy bash to the initrd and call it from nash it doesn't work.
>"read: read error: 0: Bad file descriptor"
>  
>
Just guessing: you need /dev/fd/0 and /dev/fd/1. I imagine they should 
be softlinks pointing to /dev/console. But maybe someone here knows better.




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