bootloader: grub: Add support for loading an additional initrd.

In order to be able to provide decryption keys for the LUKS device, they need
to be available in the initial ram disk.  However they cannot be stored inside
the usual initrd, since it is stored in the store and being a
world-readable (as files in the store are) is not a desired property for a
initrd containing decryption keys.  This commit adds an option to load
additional initrd during the boot, one that is not stored inside the store and
therefore can contain secrets.

Since only grub supports encrypted /boot, only grub is modified to use the
extra-initrd.  There is no use case for the other bootloaders.

* doc/guix.texi (Bootloader Configuration): Describe the new extra-initrd
field.
* gnu/bootloader.scm (<bootloader-configuration>): Add extra-initrd field.
* gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (make-grub-configuration): Use the extra-initrd
field.

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Change-Id: I995989bb623bb594ccdafbf4a1a6de941bd4189f
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Tomas Volf 2024-01-11 18:35:40 +01:00 committed by Ludovic Courtès
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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2020 Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Karl Hallsby <karl@hallsby.com>
;;; Copyright © 2022 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
;;; Copyright © 2024 Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@ -386,7 +387,8 @@ when booting a root file system on a Btrfs subvolume."
store-directory-prefix))
(initrd (normalize-file (menu-entry-initrd entry)
device-mount-point
store-directory-prefix)))
store-directory-prefix))
(extra-initrd (bootloader-configuration-extra-initrd config)))
;; Here DEVICE is the store and DEVICE-MOUNT-POINT is its mount point.
;; Use the right file names for LINUX and INITRD in case
;; DEVICE-MOUNT-POINT is not "/", meaning that the store is on a
@ -397,11 +399,12 @@ when booting a root file system on a Btrfs subvolume."
#~(format port "menuentry ~s {
~a
linux ~a ~a
initrd ~a
initrd ~a ~a
}~%"
#$label
#$(grub-root-search device linux)
#$linux (string-join (list #$@arguments))
(or #$extra-initrd "")
#$initrd)))
(multiboot-kernel
(let* ((kernel (menu-entry-multiboot-kernel entry))