> You don’t need kpartx though. Neither losetup or LVM. I did several > encrypted GPT install without any of them, so I’m pretty confident about > this. You are probably thinking about an encrypted GPT partition. What I am talking about is an encrypted GPT. To clarify, the partition table itself (the whole disk) should be encrypted in the scenario. > Could you instead describe your actual issue that make you think kpartx > is required? > > Regards, > Bruno As I said in the first mail, the kernel does not automatically recognize partitions on device maps, unlike on sd devices. Regards, Neven Sajko