[arch-general] syetemd + crypttab - question

[Rafael Beraldo]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

> I just converted a laptop with encrypted /home and /swap to systemd -
> initscripts has been removed. Luks via standard (new) /etc/crypttab
>
> Things went swimmingly well (thank you to those who contributed to the
> wiki).
>
> One thing is a bit less than ideal - at boot - the prompt for luks
> password  appears - but the screen gets ovrewritten with other 'stuff' - I
> can type the password fine its just not directly after the prompt where the
> *** get written - assume its the parallel boot and other things want to say
> 'ok'.
>
> Is there a 'nice' way to handle this?
>
> Thanks
>
> gene
>
>
> [testing repo - fully updated]
>

That's a very good question, and I only solved that by passing the
quiet boot argument on the GRUB kernel line. I'm sure better solutions
will come up, since it's kinda cool to see all the daemons initializing.

-- 
Rafael Beraldo
cabaladada.org