Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-06 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may be >> this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be >> related to previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached information >> somewhere. >> >> what do

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-05 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may be this > is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be related to > previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached information somewhere. > > what does sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda looks like

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:50:32AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02 2008, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may > > be this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be > > related to previous formatting

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Nov 02 2008, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may > be this is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be > related to previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached > information somewhere. Umm, no. I am

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-02 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Michael Wagner wrote: > * Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02.11.2008 > >> > So my question is, why aren't those volumes correctly deactivated on >> > shutdown? How does /dev/dm-0 >> > figure into this when I'm mounting /dev/mapper/debian-root as /? Can I >> > safely ignore this message, or

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Wagner
* Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02.11.2008 > > So my question is, why aren't those volumes correctly deactivated on > > shutdown? How does /dev/dm-0 > > figure into this when I'm mounting /dev/mapper/debian-root as /? Can I > > safely ignore this message, or > > is closing these devices im

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-02 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hatta wrote: > I appreciate all the pointers I've been given. I've looked pretty > carefully > at my initramfs, and I've mostly been able to fix it. I still have a few > questions though. > > I did have to create an /etc/crypttab before updating the initramfs. I'm > not quite sure how to recre

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-02 Thread Hatta
I appreciate all the pointers I've been given. I've looked pretty carefully at my initramfs, and I've mostly been able to fix it. I still have a few questions though. I did have to create an /etc/crypttab before updating the initramfs. I'm not quite sure how to recreate the configuration the d

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-25 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2008 19:13, Hatta wrote: >> Yes, I have run 'update-initramfs -v -u -k 2.6.24-1-686' >> >> This had no effect. Did you do it after you have booted from the encrypted system or not. I suppose you did not get the dm_crypto module into the image. This is bec

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 20 October 2008 19:13, Hatta wrote: > Yes, I have run 'update-initramfs -v -u -k 2.6.24-1-686' > > This had no effect. > > I cannot find any documentation as to how the system is supposed to find > and > unencrypt encrypted drives. When in the boot process is the system > supposed to loa

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-20 Thread Hatta
Yes, I have run 'update-initramfs -v -u -k 2.6.24-1-686' This had no effect. I cannot find any documentation as to how the system is supposed to find and unencrypt encrypted drives. When in the boot process is the system supposed to load these drives? What commands does it use? In what file

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hatta wrote: > A short while ago I set up a system with whole disk encryption. I used > the guided LUKS > partitioning sytem to make 3 encrypted lvm volumes, root, home, and > swap_1. > > Anyway, I broke that installation, so I needed to reinstall. I used a > netboot image in expert > mode, man

whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-19 Thread Hatta
A short while ago I set up a system with whole disk encryption. I used the guided LUKS partitioning sytem to make 3 encrypted lvm volumes, root, home, and swap_1. Anyway, I broke that installation, so I needed to reinstall. I used a netboot image in expert mode, manually opened the encrypted