Il Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:28:14 -0400, Brian Mearns ha scritto: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM, davide<lists4davide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Brian Mearns <bmearns <at> ieee.org> writes: >> >> >>> Thanks for the response, Davide. /boot is a seperate, non-LVM >>> partition with its own ext3 fs. I know F11 has options for encrypting >>> during setup, but I've already got it set up, and would now like to go >>> back and switch over to an excrypted root filesystem without having to >>> reinstall. I think your suggestion of using a Live CD implies that I >>> would reinstall Fedora, which I don't want to do. >> >> have you all the needed modules compiled into the kernel or into the >> initrd? otherwise I would give a look at /etc/crypttab and /etc/fstab >> >> >> >>> Also, it's not grub asking for the root, I'm referring to the "root" >>> parameter for the kernel. >> >> Yes, I think you mean the root parameter into the grub config, it is a >> parameter for the kernel. I would suppose is used by the kernel to find >> out where are modules and filesystem. > [clipped] > > Thanks, again, Davide. > > crypttab and fstab should be fine, as init is able to mount the device > correctly. I'm not sure if I have all the correct modules: I ran > mkinitrd with "--with=aes --with=sha256" and tried to boot using the > generated initrd.img, but perhaps there are additional modules I need? > > Thanks, thanks to Robert, I opened the init, I copy here the relevant part. tell me if it helps, or I can try to investigate more deeply. echo Creating block device nodes. mkblkdevs echo Creating character device nodes. mkchardevs echo "Loading dm-crypt module" modprobe -q dm-crypt echo "Loading aes module" modprobe -q aes echo "Loading cbc module" modprobe -q cbc echo "Loading sha256 module" modprobe -q sha256 echo "Loading pata_acpi module" modprobe -q pata_acpi echo "Loading ata_generic module" modprobe -q ata_generic echo Making device-mapper control node mkdmnod modprobe scsi_wait_scan rmmod scsi_wait_scan mkblkdevs > -Brian > > -- > Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 > Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
