[Nix-dev] Encrypted root: LUKS over LVM

[Luca Bruno]

Yes, as James says, you should really mount /mnt first. Mounting /mnt after
/mnt/boot means that /mnt/boot is seen empty.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:35 PM, James Cook <james.cook at utoronto.ca> wrote:

> On 4 January 2015 at 12:04, Nikita Karetnikov <nikita at karetnikov.org>
> wrote:
> > I’m trying to configure NixOS with LUKS over LVM as described in [1].
> > After partitioning the disk (see ‘partition-table.sfdisk’), I did the
> > following:
> >
> > # mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
> > # cryptsetup luksFormat -i 5000 /dev/sda2
> > # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 main
> > # pvcreate /dev/mapper/main
> > # vgcreate main /dev/mapper/main
> > # lvcreate -n main --extent=100%FREE main
> > # mkfs.ext3 /dev/main/main
> > # mkdir /mnt/boot
> > # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
> > # mount /dev/main/main /mnt
> > # nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
> >
> > Then I edited ‘configuration.nix’ (attached) according to the wiki page
> > and ran ‘nixos-install’, which failed (see ‘nixos-install.log’).  Is
> > anything wrong with the config file?
> >
> > [1] https://nixos.org/wiki/Encrypted_Root_on_NixOS
>
> I'm not sure if this matters, but try mounting /mnt before /mnt/boot.
> I wonder if the second mount command is overriding the first, so that
> /mnt/boot points to your LVM logical volume.
>
> James
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