Public bug reported: For business reasons I need to (a) encrypt a full install and (b) setup raid 1 so that in case one harddrive fails it can be replaced without (much) downtime.
Before I attempt this on a real server I tested this with vmware workstation 6.5 in Kubuntu 8.10. My strategy was to - install a 8.10 server edition (because of the samba package version) - manually partition the drives (in the vm both are 5 GB) - use 200 mb in sda for the /boot partition - use the rest on sda and the full sdb drive for a / partition which will be on raid 1 - then encrypt that raid 1 On this image you can see, that I selected sda2 and sdb1 partition to be a raid device: http://www.sjau.ch/raid-encryption/1_Selection.png Here you can see the whole partition layout (incl. the encrypted raid 1): http://www.sjau.ch/raid-encryption/2_Partitions.png After having been told that I use a weak password (for the test setup I just used "test") and for not having swap (I also tried with swap and with encrypted swap and also with a raided /boot and raided encrypted swap) the rest of the system installed fine. After reboot I get dropped into busybox: http://www.sjau.ch/raid- encryption/3_Bootfailure.png After advice from jdong I tried to manually mount the encrypted partition to access the initramfs-tool scripts. So I went to /dev, issued ls to see if the raid device (md0) is there. So I then tried to mount that one, however the password is not accepted: http://www.sjau.ch /raid-encryption/4_Cryptofailure.png I have no further idea of how to continue and get an encrypted raid1 setup working. Preferrably it would be to add one more level of comlexity: encrypted raid1 lvm setup. I hope this can be fixed. hyper_ch ** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Unable to install a fully encrypted system with Raid (1) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298850 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
