On 1/13/19 5:56 PM, Neven Sajko via arch-general wrote:
To mount a root GPT partition which resides on an encrypted disk, one needs the kpartx tool to make the mapping for the partition (the kernel does not independently make those for partitions on device mapper maps, which is what a dm-crypt decrypted device is). Thus kpartx needs to be on the Archlinux installation ISO to enable that kind of setup.
It would of course first be necessary for an Archlinux Developer or Trusted User to adopt kpartx, so I hope there is somebody willing to do this ...? Note that kpartx is a common utility and in its own package across a lot of distributions; like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, ...
It's your lucky day! I just pushed it to [community] as multipath-tools, please test it.
Appended is an example PKGBUILD which only installs the kpartx executable and manual page:
That's terrible, why bother splitting it up from the rest of the project? -- Rob (coderobe) O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org