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Archive for February, 2014

Full-Crypto setup with GRUB2

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Update on 2014-03-03: quoting Colin Watson from the comments: Note that this is spelled GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y in GRUB 2.02 betas (matching the 2.00 documentation though not the implementation; not sure why Andrey chose to go with the docs). Since several people asked me how to get such a setup and it’s poorly documented (as in: I […]

State of the art Debian/wheezy deployments with GRUB and LVM/SW-RAID/Crypto

Friday, February 28th, 2014

Moving from Lilo to GRUB, using LVM as default, etc throughout the last years it was time to evaluate how well LVM works without a separate boot partition, possibly also on top of Software RAID. Big disks are asking for partitioning with GPT, just UEFI isn’t my default yet, so I’m still defaulting to Legacy […]