Mail List wrote on Sunday 08 July 2007: > root is a non-starter - What do you mean by this? > First problem was if fstab has fsck on - then on booting the > /etc/crypttab triggers a pass-phrase request - which appears to work > (small yay) - next fsck fails with bad superblock error. I suspect the > fsck is done on /dev/sdaX instead of /dev/mapper/xx. Obvisously this > cannot work. I do not believe, that fsck is performed on /dev/sdaX. fsck runs on the partition you have specified in fstab - in this case /dev/mapper/xx > I edited fstab to skip any fsck - now boot proceeds further - then it > says re-mounting read write - now it prompts for pass phrase a second > time (bug?). May it be that you have several encrypted partitions and that you enter passwords in wrong order?... Can you post your crypttab and fstab here? > That seems to fail anyway in that /dev/mapper/xx is not > created and thus the mount fails. Boot proceeds ok - but ends with no > /dev/mapper/xx and /home cannot be mounted. What error message do you see? > Given the importance of laptop security these days I do so hope this > can be made to work smoothly and so would very much appreciate some > help. You might find it useful: http://www.familie-prokop.de/cryptofs/index_en.html -- bye, Adalbert Eschew obfuscation. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
