On 05/22/2018 01:53 AM, Arno Wagner - arno@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The only advice I have is to roll your own initrd. > Not that hard, at least with sysVinit (no idea about > systemd, I do not use it). > FAQ Chapter 9 gives some pointers: > > https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#9-the-initrd-question Arno- I thank you for the input, and may consider it if I can't make any other headway. Regarding systemd, the reason I ended up at Debian is that I was trying to install Devuan. I failed there, and they told me that their installer had not been forked from Debian, so any issues should be raised there. So I tried the same things in Debian and had the same problems. But then, why not in Ubuntu? > Regards, > Arno > > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 09:50:39 CEST, Diagon wrote: >> So I'm doing something that I've done many times with Ubuntu. That is, >> preparing my disks in the live system (usually /boot on a USB stick and >> / on luks, no partition table on that second drive), then running the >> install, and finally pivoting in to fix crypttab and update the initramfs. >> >> After many tries with the debian installer, I've almost been able to get >> this to work, though it does need some tending to to get there. The >> problem comes after I've pivoted in. I install cryptsetup, as I find >> that it's not there, and then correct crypttab/initramfs. Oddly, I find >> the initramfs does not include cryptsetup. Hmmm. >> >> I'm getting crickets on the Debian user list, but I figure someone here >> must have done something like this. Any hope I might find help? >> >> /D _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
