Encrypted Root with F11

[davide]

Brian Mearns <bmearns <at> ieee.org> writes:


> Thanks for the response, Davide. /boot is a seperate, non-LVM
> partition with its own ext3 fs. I know F11 has options for
> encrypting during setup, but I've already got it set up, and would
> now like to go back and switch over to an excrypted root filesystem
> without having to reinstall. I think your suggestion of using a Live
> CD implies that I would reinstall Fedora, which I don't want to do.

have you all the needed modules compiled into the kernel or into the initrd?
otherwise I would give a look at /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab


> 
> Also, it's not grub asking for the root, I'm referring to the "root"
> parameter for the kernel.

Yes, I think you mean the root parameter into the grub config, it is a parameter
for the kernel. I would suppose is used by the kernel to find out where are
modules and filesystem.