Hello everyone,
I finally got a few hours to setup a loop-AES encrypted root partition on my
machine. I religiously followed the readme and on the second attempt it
worked: I successfully booted from a usb-drive into the encrypted root
partition.
However, something obviously went wrong when I subsequently recompiled the
kernel to add a driver I had forgotten to include the first time I built it.
It is the same kernel version for which I had built the loop-aes module
(2.4.31), but I nonetheless rebuilt the module, too. I moved the new kernel
image and System.map files into /boot, copied the module from
/lib/modules/2.4.31/block/loop.o into /boot/modules-2.4.31/loop.o and again
copied all files from /boot to the usb key. Then I reran syslinux /dev/sda
and sync'ed.
However, ever since I did this my computer hangs when booting from the key:
SYSLINUX 2.11 ...
Loading vmlinuz...
Loading initrd.gz...
Ready.
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
And it hangs there (in fact, the cursor is still blinking, so I don't know
if it is technically speaking "hanged"). Using a knoppix cd and the
rootkey.gpg on my usb key I can successfully mount the encrypted root
partition and use my system "as usual", so I know that the problem resides
in the contents of the usb key.
Could anyone please give me some guidance on what to check given that it
hangs at the "Ok, booting the kernel" stage? My kernel config still matches
the requirements on the readme. What might be going wrong?
In the meantime I completely rebuilt the usb-key (erased all its contents
except for the rootkey.gpg file, reran the build-initrd.sh script) and the
problem persists.
Thanks so much for any help,
Marvin
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Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system
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