-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, I edited the message after signing it. The signature was invalid, this was is correct. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Brian Mearns<bmearns@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I apologize if this has been asked before, I checked the most recent > archives and didn't find anything. > > I've successfully set up two separate LUKS encrypted logical-volumes, > one for home and one for root. Everything appeared to be working > fine, until I tried to delete my old root logical-volume and found > out it was still in use: the kernel was using it as the root, > even though mount had then replaced it at / with the encrypted > one. So I tried simply changing the root parameter to the kernel > (from grub.conf) so it points to the encrypted one, but when I > boot, the startup routine stops after a little while and just > hangs there until I ctrl-alt-del, and then it restarts. I don't > think it's reaching init, because I haven't seen any of the usual > "Starting some server... [OK]" messages. I guess that makes sense > if it's failing to load the root device, it wouldn't get to init. > > So can anyone help me get this set up properly? I have a basic > understanding of the boot process and I guess that something needs > to be changed in initrd to tell it to unlock the encrypted root > disk before mounting it. But I have no idea how to do that. > > On a related note, can anyone explain what's actually required > of the root FS loaded by the kernel? I tried setting up just a > 1GB empty ext3 filesystem to use as the root, and then let mount > replace it with the encrypted one once init starts, but this also > caused the startup process to hang: apparently having a filesystem > alone is insufficient, there actually needs to be some stuff on it? > > I'm using Fedora 11 on a Compaq Presario laptop (x86). > > Many thanks for any help, > - -Brian > > - -- > Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: > Key Id: 0x3AA70848 > Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKQ3FxAAoJEHOUulIkSI7cA9AH/1MVKuxOg9udqRBDwxLOQwSM 6A+iEDWZVj5e+oCJg62RNeuh++oZLVpHx8EWvH7G5S5T1NvSvnQomim7kvJgoqei 1+TEhc9iy99isZJ6Qqc+e2CTljXIsb48/nddTc+oWa2LSN1wnRR0x/cBW9tUopro K4wRwzwa/UcPh/wRPEWFDHXM6Pgbdq/3PVJZR2s0VG9HZAz4hGfxRNSdJeFFcsOz xvAoOtCifp5ssr2p/+JYKtjTw7e63LVUHh5/ALjCHo89ILcnjos3549b3AOI7MeJ 8kp73u3c6z99TB7+LjydenIRc2l25WYEEkhVFWLRFKJwDYvK/G61l4epde05FF8= =4Qhh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
