Right, that makes sense. I've managed to avoid building an initramfs by only using LVM for /home and leaving / as a regular btrfs partition, but you certainly do enter the "keys are locked inside the car" situation when you're trying to load the modules for encrypted filesystems from an encrypted filesystem.
Right, that makes sense. I've managed to avoid building an initramfs by only using LVM for /home and leaving / as a regular btrfs partition, but you certainly do enter the "keys are locked inside the car" situation when you're trying to load the modules for encrypted filesystems from an encrypted filesystem.
Changes to the initramfs are easy and well documented. Just edit
/etc/mikincpio.confand runsudo mkinitcpio -p linux.The hard part is telling your bootloader to use the luks module you added to the initramfs. It changes depending on your bootloader.