[SOLVED] initrd doesn't show the line asking for cryptsetup password at boot.

lupe · 05-04-2023, 10:17 AM

Hi,

I want to move the Slackware NVME system disk from one computer to another.
The disk is booting fine in the old system, using UEFI, elilo, a /boot partition in clear mode and the rest of the system is using LVM on top of cryptsetup + LUKS.

At the new computer, UEFI seems to do its job, elilo as well.
The boot process shows these messages:

"""
ELILO v3.16 for EFI/x86_64
.
Loading kernel vmlinuz... done
Loading file initrd.gz...done
"""

But it gets stuck.
After some time trying to tackle why the system was not trying to open the encrypted root, I found out that I could just insert my password via keyboard and the system could finish booting.

What should I change to see a line asking for the cryptsetup luks password to open the encrypted container?

ldarby · 05-04-2023, 04:23 PM

See this thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...175671086-new/

lupe · 05-04-2023, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ldarby

See this thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...175671086-new/

That's it @ldarby! Spot on!
I would never find this on my own.

My system is a Intel i3 12100 CPU and an ASRock B660M-HDV mobo.

In the BIOS:
- Advanced mode (F6)
- Advanced
- Chipset
- Above 4G Decoding -> set to Disabled

After changing the BIOS setting, the relevant line in dmesg seems to be:

Code:

i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem

Thank you very much!

unInstance · 05-09-2023, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lupe

Hi,

I want to move the Slackware NVME system disk from one computer to another.
The disk is booting fine in the old system, using UEFI, elilo, a /boot partition in clear mode and the rest of the system is using LVM on top of cryptsetup + LUKS.

At the new computer, UEFI seems to do its job, elilo as well.
The boot process shows these messages:

"""
ELILO v3.16 for EFI/x86_64
.
Loading kernel vmlinuz... done
Loading file initrd.gz...done
"""

But it gets stuck.
After some time trying to tackle why the system was not trying to open the encrypted root, I found out that I could just insert my password via keyboard and the system could finish booting.

What should I change to see a line asking for the cryptsetup luks password to open the encrypted container?

ELILO is broken, use Limine https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...?search=limine
It fixed the prompt for me.