Re: Encrypted Root with F11

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Brian Mearns<bmearns@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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