-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I apologize if this has been asked before, I checked the most recent archives and didn't find anything. I've successfully set up two separate LUKS encrypted logical-volumes, one for home and one for root. Everything appeared to be working fine, until I tried to delete my old root logical-volume and found out it was still in use: the kernel was using it as the root, even though mount had then replaced it at / with the encrypted one. So I tried simply changing the root parameter to the kernel (from grub.conf) so it points to the encrypted one, but when I boot, the startup routine stops after a little while and just hangs there until I ctrl-alt-del, and then it restarts. I don't think it's reaching init, because I haven't seen any of the usual "Starting some server... [OK]" messages. I guess that makes sense if it's failing to load the root device, it wouldn't get to init. So can anyone help me get this set up properly? I have a basic understanding of the boot process and I guess that something needs to be changed in initrd to tell it to unlock the encrypted root disk before mounting it. But I have no idea how to do that. On a related note, can anyone explain what's actually required of the root FS loaded by the kernel? I tried setting up just a 1GB empty ext3 filesystem to use as the root, and then let mount replace it with the encrypted one once init starts, but this also caused the startup process to hang: apparently having a filesystem alone is insufficient, there actually needs to be some stuff on it? I'm using Fedora 11 on a Compaq Presario laptop (x86). Many thanks for any help, - -Brian - -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ3DgAAoJEHOUulIkSI7cJQgH/0V4qxE9hMJaLK/79tsczNmP sDf48rhd0dJGhF+cvHtQg+57F3j0GX6nHYvD6810xApd5eTzALJ2/Ug6BOgC2aL5 dw+kw6rebquyXDCrknsAavxWZNkRJYooTguOSSPIwP2815aAG7wWoecqR+ESzaO3 yQfLM5tUPo+xVkBdlC8NS+UO9+nKFXlfTTO1qCexutwxsJdwSvXJvZ4Hiu2r68jz 7PAtr4QkR1PSUyxpTY08wcZV39s1F+X9WzE99lKoz/KjHymLvSOrkW8kS7OSAyoH EK5AfujeZ85HMu1Hf2bw4D6OgSq9l2yHTZ8yZpQEIPNrv0+/36JijmN/2MLz4Xs= =1Na5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
