Re: grub with encrpted root no longer automatically loads luks

[Jack Hill]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Mark H Weaver wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
> Jack Hill <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I've noticed that recently (unfortunately, I don't know exactly when
> > it started), that grub no longer prompts me to enter my password to
> > unlock my root filesystem.
>
> FWIW, I also use an encrypted root filesystem on my Guix system, and
> I've updated Guix since you reported the problem, and it works for me.
> GRUB continues to prompt me for the LUKS passphase at boot.
>
> One notable difference between our system configurations is that you
> have a separate /boot filesystem, and I don't.  All I have is a single
> encrypted root filesystem, plus %base-file-systems.  I wonder if this
> might be the relevant difference?

Mark,

Thanks for your reply. I've finally had a chance to try without a separate 
/boot, and indeed it works as expected like it does for you. Since I don't 
think I was getting any benefit from having a separate /boot, I'm content 
to leave it without one. However, perhaps there is a bug here, and we 
should support a separate /boot?

As for why I started getting this problem, it appears it is because I 
didn't have a separate /boot, but then added one. Trying to remember why I 
did that, I think it was because grub-install failed at some point, and 
worked when I added a /boot. However, I didn't reboot right away, and had 
reconfigured a few more times before I rebooted and noticed the problem. 
At that point I didn't remember that I had changed the configuration with 
regards to /boot. Of course it was the thing I changed that caused the 
problem, if only I had remembered! ☺

Best,
Jack