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I set for testing a virtual machine with debian machine is so configured

4 disk in raid10 software the md0(raid10) in encrypted with luks on the luks(luksmd0) I have create the vg (debian2-vg) wich finally has 2 volumes,root and swap. I configured boot in /(the latest grub2 can boot from raid,lvm and with boot in encrypted /). So I configured /etc/default/grub like this

GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=/dev/mapper/debian2--vg-root rd.luks.uuid=21d33599-a220-zddg-1b1f-b2ae82fc0856 rd.luks.name=21d33599-a220-zddg-1b1f-b2ae82fc0856=luksmd0 rd.luks.crypttab=no rd.lvm.lv=debian2-vg/root rd.luks=1 rd.md=1"

the system boot,ask for password of /,I insert the pass and the system boot and finally...initramfs without lvm :( (the md0 exist,luksmd0 no) What I miss?

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Solution found. I have missed the initramfs part. When we change from a clear to encrypt environment, we must configure the initramfs.

a)After booting from a usbkey with iso image(slackware iso is ok, debian is ok too)

b)Open the encrypted md

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md0 luksmd0

c)Mount the eventual lvm

vgchange -ay
mount /dev/yourvgname/rootlv /mnt

d)mount those dirs as bind from "fakeroot"

for i in dev proc sys
do mount -o bind /$i/ /mnt/$i
done

e)usually boot is separate partition

chroot /mnt /bin/bash
mount /boot 

f)Important..we edit the /etc/crypttab,the uuid must be the uuid of encrypted dev in my case is /dev/md0, the uuid is taken from blkid NOT mdadm, another way is to use cryptsetup luksUUID /dev/md0

luksmd0 UUID=21d33599-a220-zddg-1b1f-b2ae82fc0856 none luks

g)We have to edit those two files,in this one we insert the kernel modules(ext4,md,raid10,raid0,etc..)

/etc/initramfs-tools/modules

in this other we simply enable cryptsetup

/etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook

h)now edit /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="root=/dev/mapper/debian2--vg-root rd.luks.uuid=21d33599-a220-zddg-1b1f-b2ae82fc0856 rd.luks.name=21d33599-a220-zddg-1b1f-b2ae82fc0856=luksmd0 rd.luks.crypttab=no rd.lvm.lv=debian2-vg/root rd.luks=1 rd.md=1"

i)if needed edit fstab and make changes

vim /etc/fstab

m)now mkinit

update-initramfs -cuv -k all

n)and finally grub

grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

if use efi

mount /boot/efi
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

If all is ok and no error given

umount -a
exit
reboot

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