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On 03/08/2016 03:02 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:03:27PM -0800, Willie Matthews wrote: |
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>> On 03/08/2016 01:41 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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>>> Hi folks |
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>>> I’m trying to follow an article¹ on setting up a fully encrypted system for |
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>>> my soon-to-arrive laptop. It and others (e.g. ² in a very condensed form) |
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>>> simply luksFormat a block device, then luksOpen it and run pvcreate on that. |
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>>> [...] |
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>> If I am not mistaken you have to create a partition on the drive before |
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>> you can use "pvcreate /dev/sda1". |
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> Please look again: I run pvcreate on a LUKS container, not a partition. ;) |
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> The container itself resides on the first GPT partition of the SSD. |
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> In condensed form, I did what ² in my OP was saying: |
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> parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos |
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> parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 2048s 100% |
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> cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1 |
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> cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 lvm |
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> pvcreate /dev/mapper/lvm |
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> -- poof -- |
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> (only I used GPT instead of MSDOS because of UEFI) |
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>> If you would like to get rid of the /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket error just |
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>> start lvm with "service lvm start". I still get the error when starting |
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>> up but it still works. |
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> I noticed that and quickly found /etc/init.d/lvmetad, but since I'm doing |
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> only the setup on this PC, I don't realler bother. |
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>> I used your first link to do a full encrypted secure boot install of |
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>> Gentoo. |
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>> (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Preparing_the_LUKS-LVM_Filesystem_and_Boot_USB_Key). |
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>> It works like a charm. |
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> Good to know. |
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>> If you don't want to use a USB key to boot every time make sure you make |
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>> a small partition on the drive to hold all the information for your |
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>> encryption and secure boot files. I made that mistake and it took a |
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>> while to fix. |
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> I keep an ESP at the end of the SSD of ~700 megs. That way I can also keep a |
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> sysrescuecd ISO around. (Sort of the Gentoo way of a recovery partition ^^ ). |
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> Cheers. |
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What does pvdisplay printout? |
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Willie Matthews |
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matthews.willie80@×××××.com |
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(702) 659-9966 |