Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

I wrote:

> B: LUKS -> LVM
> A simpler approach. sda1 is a small boot partition, sda2 (the rest of the
> drive) is a LUKS-formatted LVM physical volume with volume group
> 'pvcrypt' on it. This does not work yet, the initramfs does not find the
> LVM.
>
> I looked into the init script. I wants to do a cryptsetup luksOpen
> $LUKS_DEVICE $LUKS_NAME with $LUKS_NAME=root, which is not the name I
> use. But changing this does not help anyway. I get /dev/mapper/pvcrypt
> created, but pvscan does not find it. At this point I thought I'd ask
> here, do you have ideas what's wrong?

BTW, I have another drive in the PC, with LVMs on it. pvscan / vgscan does 
not find them either. So it's probably not a problem with the encryption 
itself.

But why does this work on my other system? I don't get it.

	Wonko