[lug] stupid encrypted hard disk question

[Stephen Queen]

On 5/18/12, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
> I have a really stupid encrypted hard disk question.
>
> I have a system with two drives, each with three partitions.  There's a
> small RAID-1 partition for /boot, a small non-RAID partition for swap
> (giving two swap partitions in total - there's no point in using RAID with
> swap), and the third partition is a fairly standard stack:
>
>  - LVM
>  - encryption
>  - RAID
>
> The issue is that when I boot the system it brings me to the login screen.
> Shouldn't it take me to a screen to enter a decryption password for the big
> partition? If it's reading the password from somewhere in the /boot
> partition doesn't that defeat the whole purpose for the encryption?
>
> In contrast my Windows disk encryption requires me to enter a password
> before it starts booting the system at all.
>
I have my disk encrypted as well. When I get passed the grub menu, it
asks for the password for the disks. Are you sure you have the
encryption setup correctly?

I have my swap area encrypted too, so that what is swapped in and out
stays hidden.

Steve