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Re: Encrypted containers & the Debian installer. - Works now.



Le 23/05/2018 à 09:56, Diagonal Arg a écrit :
On 05/23/2018 12:36 AM, Diagonal Arg wrote:
On 05/22/2018 05:06 AM, 21naown@gmail.com wrote:
Le 16/05/2018 à 08:05, Diagonal Arg a écrit :
On my first tries with the Debian installer, I am struggling with the
limited resources for installing to encrypted disks.  I am using the
same technique I have used with Ubuntu, but failing at the last step:

I create my luks disk(s) before-hand, then run the installer.  I find
I have to anna-install cryptsetup-udeb, as there is no such choice in
"Load Installer Modules".  Dropping to a shell, opening the disk, and
re-detecting hard drives allows me to carry out the installation (as
long as there's a filesystem in the mapped device), but on reboot I'm
at an initramfs without cryptsetup.  So I use a debian-live to pivot
into the system to create a crypttab.  I find I also have to install
cryptsetup.  Then I run update-initramfs.  Here is where I'm stuck.
The new initramfs still does not include cryptsetup.  Why is it not
recognizing the crypttab?

I have tried other approaches eg, during installation doing adding an
apt-install cryptsetup (after "Select and Install Software") and then
editing crypttab, but to no avail.

/D

PS.  I pivot like this, in case I'm missing something:

mount root & boot devices in /target
for f in dev dev/pts sys proc; do sudo mount -B /$f /target/$f; done
chroot /target

Hello,

In the file “/etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook”, there is a line
“CRYPTSETUP” which is commented and/or has the default value “n”. If
this is the case, replace the line with “CRYPTSETUP=y”. So, the next use
of the command “update-initramfs” should solve your problem if I
understood it correctly.

[...]
Thank you!  Cryptsetup is now in my initramfs.  I am close, but there
still remains one issue.  When updating the initramfs, I get:

cryptsetup: WARNING: root target luks.root uses a key file, skipped

But it doesn't use a key file.  My cryptsetup is:
luks.root	UUID=xxx	pwd	luks

And my fstab contains:
/dev/mapper/luks.root	/	btrfs	defaults	0	0

When I boot the system, I drop into initramfs.  There, I can open the
root disk myself and continue the boot process.

/D
Oops!  It's not "pwd" in the crypttab, it's "none"!

Works now.  Yay, yay!!  :)

Thanks so much.

/D

Sorry for the huge delay.

You’re welcome :)


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