And the answer, for posterity, is that you do killall cryptroot*before* running it from busybox.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Justin <eqi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to unlock an encrypted root partition via SSH. I finally got to > the point where I could log in via dropbear and run cryptroot successfully. > After that I do a 'killall cryptroot & exit' and the boot process resumes. > However, it hangs after populating /dev. I wasn't able to find ANY > documentation on this feature aside from the 'wishlist' bug report. Am I > doing something wrong? > > This is the information I've mostly been going by: > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org/msg456252.html >