FC9 boot hangs with encrypted filesystems

[Marc Schwartz]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

> I put an encrypted f/s on an FC9 install, and the boot hung waiting
> for the password. Not good, so I marked it "noauto" in fstab, but it
> still hung. So I put it in automount and not in fstab and it still
> hangs, and I finally took it out of everywhere and the boot process
> can still see it.
>
> I want the system to boot without the filesystem, and mount it only on
> demand, but by simply existing it seems to be found and validated at
> boot time. Can someone tell me where the boot process is finding the
> f/s? It's not used for normal operations, only for special operations
> by people with the password.
>
> Is there a way to keep the boot from asking about it until used?

  man crypttab

HTH,

Marc Schwartz