[Debian-eeepc-devel] encrpyted root partition and initramfs

[Zoho Vignochi]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:25 -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I installed debian on my eeepc and it went very painlessly.
> Congratulations! I am writing here to describe one of the small problems
> I did have.
> 
> My system has a small /boot partition and the rest is on encrypted lvm
> (swap, /home, /). When I upgraded the kernel I get the luks passphrase
> prompt. So I mounted the initramfs and noticed that the new initramfs
> didn't have the cryptroot file. So I created the file:
> 
> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/cryptroot:
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> 
> and remade the initramfs and it worked. Yay! Thanks for all the hard
> work.
> 
> Zoho
> 
> post scriptum: While writing this I checked the contents of my cryptroot
> file and it had 16 identical entries. That is weird. Everytime I update
> the initramfs it adds a line. Any ideas on why that is happening?
> 
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap
> target=sda5_crypt,source=/dev/sda5,key=none,lvm=red-swap

Should read: "When I upgraded the kernel I **did not** get the luks
passphrase."

Oops

Zoho