On Sat Nov 28, 2020 at 1:58 PM CET, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Archlinux has its own boot process, described at [1] > > Check the initramfs section and you'll see a reference to mkinitcpio [2] > . > > On the mkinitcpio page look at the Common Hooks section. > > Basically there are 2 systems that archlinux can use in initramfs : > busybox and systemd . > > > Check the hooks in your mkinitcpio.conf : are you using the systemd hook > or any of the sd-* hooks ? > > If yes, mkinitpio sd-encrypt hook is what handles your encrypted drives. > see [3] for details > > If no, busybox encrypt hook is responsible, see [4]. I'm informed on what the supported boot processed for Arch are, and I very well known which one I'm running, as I configured it. :) I'm grateful for your help, but you didn't really answer any of my questions, which are about some specifics of the systemd boot process that I'd like to better understand. Riccardo
