encrypted f10 install - changed after using livecd - a question?

Charlie Brej fedora-test-list at brej.org
Sat Jan 10 19:15:28 UTC 2009


mike cloaked wrote:
> I have a laptop that had a clean F10 install with encrypted swap, /,
> and /opt partitions and all three with the same luks passphrase.
> 
> Until today it only asked me for a single passphrase during boot to
> unlock all three partitions.
> 
> Earlier today I ran the F10 livecd as a demonstration on this machine,
> and ran various programs including allowing it to "install" flash
> plugin for Firefox. I had presumed this would not affect the hard
> drive and that it should boot from HD as before once the CD was out
> and the machine restarted.
> 
> However when I shut the machine down from running the livecd and
> rebooted to the normal encrypted system it asked me for the passphrase
> 4 times during boot!
> 
> This is a real irritation and I don't know what running the livecd did
> to make this happen?  Can anyone tell me how to get the system to
> revert to its previous behaviour of asking only once for the luks
> passphrase during boot?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

Does it ask you multiple times every time you boot? Did you press Esc to see the 
boot messages before or during the password dialogue? Did it say you were giving 
a password for for each partition by name?




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