/root encryption is still broken

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu Feb 28 22:00:42 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:10:52 +0100,
  Alexander Todorov <atodorov at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > I tried out today's boot.iso and things got further. It appears that the
> > install was successful using encrypted raid 1 partitions. (This used
> > to fail.) But when I tried to boot the system, I wasn't asked for
> > a password. During the boot process /dev/root couldn't be mounted. Things
> > continued for a short while and then hung up after some usb devices
> > were detected.
> > For a problem like this, what component should be used?
> > 
> As installation has succeeded I think that's either initrd's fault or some init
> scripts.

It looks like encryption over LVM has the same problem.
I will test just encryption without any stacking and see if that works.




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