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musashi

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 6

[SOLVED]LUKS error while booting

This is more of an annoyance than a real problem; however it would be nice to know what is causing this. I have an unencrypted root (/dev/sda3) and two encrypted partitions. While booting I get the following message:

ERROR:Failed to open encryption mapping: The device /dev/sda3 is not a LUKS volume and the crypto= parameter was not specified.

However despite this the root is mounted correctly and the boot process follows normally. My two encrypted volumes also mount correctly. I checked my /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.cfg and didn't see anything that might be giving it the idea that my root partition is encrypted. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
musashi.

Last edited by musashi (2012-06-13 15:19:59)

65kid

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-01-26

Posts: 663

Re: [SOLVED]LUKS error while booting

you probably have "encrypt" in your HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
remove it and rebuilt your initramfs with "mkinitcpio -p linux"

musashi

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Registered: 2011-09-22

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED]LUKS error while booting

Ah, thanks - that works perfectly now!

Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: [SOLVED]LUKS error while booting

Good to hear you've solved it.

Don't forget to mark your thread as [SOLVED].

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