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Re: Partitions on loopback

Gabriel Jägenstedt wrote:
> In 7.7.10a it says you should set CRYPTROOT to /dev/hda2
> How is this?
> 
> I'm going to wipe my entire drive and set up it all using losetup
> so what is CRYPTROOT for?

It is the backing device of loop. In normal partitioned case:

CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda2

Or in no-partition-table case:

CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda
PSEED="-o @32256 -s 24643584"

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