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## Snapshot of encrypted installation won't boot

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### Snapshot of encrypted installation won't boot

by fsmithred » Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:33 pm

I installed from a live iso, created a separate /boot and encrypted root filesystem. Booted into that system and created a snapshot. Tried to boot the snapshot.iso and got the same error I got when we were experimenting with UUIDs in fstab - "cryptsetup: evms_activate is not available”
This happens with the squeeze version of refracta with the default version of snapshot (9.0.2...) as well as with wheezy and the latest version of snapshot (9.0.5-3.) I'm not sure what to do about it, or if anything should be done about it. Maybe it makes sense that you can't make a live CD of a system that you think needs to be encrypted.

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### Re: Snapshot of encrypted installation won't boot

by nadir » Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:19 pm

I am very sure that it worked for me (i didn't want that, and hence can remember it good).
I installed with refractainstaller and used the refractasnapshot and the resulting iso asked me for the passwords during boot (It might be i installed with Debian-Installer and used refractasnapshot).
But you know how it is with "being sure"
I since it makes a lot of sense.
Say you got your configured and encrypted OS at home, but you want to carry it with you cause of all your settings, including ssh-keys, gpg-keys, encrypted-password-file, etc.
If you lose that iso you would not want someone to be able to access it. I think
Let me try again, but it will take a few days (need to make a new installation, etc).
I will then say that it didn't work, and that i don't know why. Probably. But i will try.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: Snapshot of encrypted installation won't boot

by nadir » Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:17 pm

I had to reinstall my main PC, installed Squeeze and upgraded immediatly to Wheezy. No data yet, so i too the chance and ran refractasnapshot from github,the newest version. Problem is there. I didn't investigate any further.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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