When my computer reboots it shows the grub menu and some initial messages from the kernel loading and then waits a very long time (minutes) before asking for the pass-phrase for the main partition. I speculate the delay is to gather randomness for the 2 random-encrypted swap partitions. However, hitting keys doesn't seem to speed it up. Is this speculation reasonable? If not, what might be the cause of the delay? If the delay is from the encrypted swap, is there anything I can do about it short of eliminating the swap? Is there any reason to avoid using a fixed key for the swap? Fixed keys sound as if they should eliminate the need for randomness from the system. [slightly off-topic] Is it still the case that encrypted swap limits the ability to suspend or hibernate and resume? Thanks. Ross Boylan Details that might matter: Xeon CPUs from a few years ago. The boot and main partitions are RAID1. The main partition is the physical volume behind an LVM volume group; encryption is on some individual logical volumes, including the one holding the root file system. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
