cryptsetup-luks

[Gabor Walter]

Hi,

I would like to encrypt my entire root fs using cryptsetup-luks. I didn't
find any fedora specific howtos, but what I tried doing is supposed to work
under other distributions.
I have three partitions, (no lvm)
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda3 /

What I wanted to achieve was an ecrypted / and a modified initrd image to
ask for the passphrase at boot.
Here is what I did:
1. installed FC4
2. installed cryptsetup
3. booted into a live cd
4. tar-red the entire / and ftp-d it to another computer
5. using cryptsetup on the live cd I created the encrypted /dev/hda3
6. ftp-d the tar file back and extracted it
7. chroot-ed to the hdd
8. mkinitd kernel.img kernel

After reboot, however, system is not booting, not even asking for the
passphrase.
Anybody here got any experience with cryptsetup? What did I do wrong?
Your help is really appreciated.

Gabor Walter
Hungary
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