Install F11 using the images from March 23. Choose custom partition layout. I created 4 partitions /dev/sda1 /boot (ext3) /sev/sda2 / (ext4) /dev/sda3 /home (ext4) /dev/sda5 swap (swap) For ONLY /home I chose to encrypt that partition. It ask my password, the installer worked perfectly. On boot after the installation finished the machine fails to boot and drops to maintenance mode. It complains that /dev/mapper/luks-BLAH does not exist. I edited /etc/fstab and removed the line for /home and the machine boots fine (although not /dev/mapper/luks-* is created, I'm not ask for the p-word, nothing like that)
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000948c5 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 32 256000 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 32 2582 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2582 3104 4194304 83 Linux /dev/sda4 3105 19457 131355472+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 3105 3627 4194304 83 Linux [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Mon Mar 23 15:46:19 2009 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info # UUID=09573af8-c35a-46e4-a78f-285a5ae87e46 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 UUID=36e96839-c795-407e-bbc7-f38e7294babc / ext4 defaults 1 1 #/dev/mapper/luks-86fe0ce3-dcd1-4558-b60d-712a9bb29286 /home ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=a4732346-b8a8-448a-8cd2-1a3d0a48c529 swap swap defaults 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/crypttab luks-86fe0ce3-dcd1-4558-b60d-712a9bb29286 UUID=86fe0ce3-dcd1-4558-b60d-712a9bb29286 none [root@localhost ~]# blkid /dev/sda2: UUID="36e96839-c795-407e-bbc7-f38e7294babc" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda1: UUID="09573af8-c35a-46e4-a78f-285a5ae87e46" TYPE="ext3" SEC_TYPE="ext2" /dev/sda3: UUID="86fe0ce3-dcd1-4558-b60d-712a9bb29286" TYPE="crypt_LUKS" /dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="a4732346-b8a8-448a-8cd2-1a3d0a48c529" [root@localhost ~]#
So it looks like the problem is actually with /etc/crypttab above. when I ran cat /etc/crypttab I would see the result but there would not be a \n at the end. The next prompt would be on the same line as the output. I edited /etc/crypttab with vi and found there was a whitespace like character past the end of the line. I deleted that white space character. cat /etc/crypttab now has the next prompt on the next line and on boot I was ask for the password for /home. So it has something to do with the end of the line in /etc/crypttab
This should be fixed in today's build of anaconda. Thanks for the bug report.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping