[Bug 306073] Re: Long delay during boot using encrypted root filesystem

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[Expired for initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity
for 60 days.]

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Long delay during boot using encrypted root filesystem

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

  After upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10 there appeared a very long delay
  (several minutes) during boot, before the appearance of the prompt to
  enter the password for the root file system. I decided to investigate
  and saw in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/cryptroot that
  there were some lines to create a very long delay if the ROOTDELAY
  variable was not set. Without fully understanding what was going on, I
  decided to try adding "rootdelay=5" to my boot parameters, which
  actually solved the problem of the long delay during boot.

  I suspect many users would not be able to find this solution, so the
  default behavior should perhaps be improved.

  I have an IDE harddrive with encrypted root on sda5 which is the first
  logical drive on the extended partition. This is on a fully updated
  Ubuntu 8.10.

  ~ $ cat /etc/crypttab
  # <target device> <source device> <key file> <options>
  root 	/dev/sda5 	none	cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256,hash=ripemd160
  swap   /dev/sda2       /dev/urandom     swap
  ~ $

  Please let me know if you need additional information.

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