ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 62, Issue 77

[Alain Muls]

On 10/09/2009 ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> > Hi ubuntu-users,
> > > 
> > > In installed the 9.10 beta of Karmic. My home dir is on a 
> separate 
> > > encrypted directory shared with jaunty. I sat up the cryptinit 
> startup 
> > > script in exactly the same manner in Karmic and disabled the 
> spash 
> > > screen (no quiet splash in /etc/default/grub) but the splash 
> screen is 
> > > still there (I ran the grub-install script) and I am not asked 
> for the 
> > > passwd to get access to the eenvrypted drive.
> > > 
> > > Any help is appreciated
> > > 
> > > bye/Alain
> > > 
>     Think back. Did you not install something on Jaunty to get 
> cryptinit? You need to install it on Karmic too.
> 

I installed the necessary programs since when I open up a terminal and run

sudo /etc/init.d/cryptinit start

everything works fine.

Only the link I have created

[502] [amuls at geodprof: /etc/rcS.d]$ ls -l ???cryptinit
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-10-08 09:04 S28cryptinit -> 
../init.d/cryptinit

is not executed at startup, so I do not get the prompt for the passwd. 
To be able to enter this password, I also want to get rid of the splash. 
In jaunty I replaced for that purpose:
quiet splash - option from menu.lst
with
vga=793

Something similar I cannot do with Karmic.

Tx/Alain