On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM, davide<lists4davide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. [clipped] Thanks, again, Davide. crypttab and fstab should be fine, as init is able to mount the device correctly. I'm not sure if I have all the correct modules: I ran mkinitrd with "--with=aes --with=sha256" and tried to boot using the generated initrd.img, but perhaps there are additional modules I need? Thanks, -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
