Booting Fedora 9 off USB Harddrive

[Mike]

Mike Wohlgemuth <mjw <at> woogie.net> writes:


> Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sdb2:
> 
> I enter the passphrase, and then I get this:
> 
> Command failed: No key available with this passphrase.
> 
> However, if I boot off the install media again, and go into rescue mode, 
> I am able to mount the encrypted partitions on the USB drive just fine.
> 
> So my question is this:  Is it possible to boot off an encrypted 
> partition on a USB drive?

I believe that grub cannot work from an encrypted boot area - so it is necessary
to have a non-encrypted /boot but the other partitions can be encrypted. 

So I guess if you create a non-encrypted /boot and put the grub files in
it, and make the remaining partitions encrypted it should  work - once you get
past grub it will then ask for the luks passphrase for the other partitions as
the boot proceeds.