Hi everybody, I decided to give dm-crypt a try on a new machine. I am used to setup everything with lvm over software raid and inserting the crypto layer between the 2 seem to be the most logical place (physical LVM volume over and encypted block device). Placing the encryption at a lower level would require typing the passphrase once per disk (8times) and at a higher level it would leave the lvm metadata exposed. The problem I have is that the system does not boot after the install. It search for the volume group and does not find it. It does not ask for any passphrase either. If I start the cypto layer in busybox, I can create the md1_crypt block device but vgchange does not want to consider it as a physical volume (volume group not found). I have read about the little issue with the installer (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/RAIDvsCrypto) but the fix proposed does not do it for me. The cryptab file does not contain the entry needed, but adding it and recreating the initramfs does not change the problem. Also, I heard that lvm2 does not scan dm block devices by default, so one need to add types = ["device-mapper",16] in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf. That sound fine for the real system, but the initrd does not use vgscan, so is there abother way to change the default? thanks for your help jacques
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