Hello,

> Christine Lemmer-Webber <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> - It's painful with full disk encryption even then, because you have to
>>   type your passphrase twice.
>
> This is not the case for quite some time now.  Sure, it requires some
> configuration, but it can be done.  For all my machines I am typing my
> passphrase just once.  Sure, it is the first one, so it takes *long*
> time, though since it is just one passphrase, I usually just make a
> coffee or something while waiting.

I just performed a Guix System 1.5.0 installation with full-disk
encryption in a VM. On the installed system, the password needs to be
typed twice: in GRUB and in the initramfs.

Maybe for the next release, we should aim for an installer that creates
a configuration where only one password input is necessary. The
extra-initrd proposal feels a bit hacky to be the one proposed by the
installer.

Two alternatives come to my mind:

1. Make sure that all the kernels/initramfs of the live generations have
a copy in /boot.

2. Have the store in a dedicated, unencrypted partition.

Any other alternatives :) ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

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