Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible for the console output to pause at boot when it asks for the LUKS password instead of continuing to output information? You can see here where it asks for the password, but kernel messages continue outputting, https://i.imgur.com/2W5C4pM.jpg. I would like it to pause when asking for the password, and not have further messages output until I unlock the partition.

My system is running Slackware64-current.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Couple of options.
1) Add 'quiet' on to your kernel parameters.
2) Put a 'sleep' in your init-script just before the cryptsetup luksOpen to allow the kernel and any background processes to finish flushing all their messages to the console.

This document covers using a USB "authorization" by storing the keys on a USB stick and checking them during boot:

http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwa...ADME_CRYPT.TXT

Interestingly, I've found adding that does what you want, even without using the USB stick. So basically during boot, the system will stop on the luks prompt and not continue printing information to the screen until you enter your password, then proceed as normal. It looks very clean.

Note that's a capital -K.

Test it if you like. In my case I use where UUID is for the USB stick and the path is simply the folder on the stick containing the key. But generally I don't bother with the stick. I just like that the luks prompt is not cluttered by console messages.

Thank you both for your replies. By setting the boot parameters to quiet, and a less verbose loglevel, the boot is much cleaner, and it does pause at asking for the password now. Thanks again!