Comment 8 for bug 144390

Martin Pitt writes ("[Bug 144390] Re: use entire disk with lvm/encrypted partitioning fails to boot"):
> The root problem is that /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot does
> not know anything about UUIDs. It needs to be taught to recognize UUIDs
> in fstab and crypttab and write a sane /conf/conf.d/cryptroot into the
> initramfs.

This is not possible, because the UUID of the filesystem is in the
encrypted portion of the disk. So it is no good quoting the fs UUID
in the config file as the on-disk copy is not accessible until the
decryption for the relevant partition or LV has already been set up.

Ian.