[ltp] Lock HDD on reboot

Peter G. (nephros) linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:07:00 +0100 (CET)


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2012-01-17 quidam/qu=E6dam/quoddam 'Johannes Bittner' inquit:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 00:16, Rubin Abdi <rubin@starset.net> wrote:
>> Johannes Bittner wrote, On 2012-01-17 00:07:
>>> I have a Thinkpad X220 with an Intel 320 SSD (which has hardware
>>> acceleration). When I power on the notebook, it asks me for the
>>> password. When rebooting however, the disk remains unlocked.
>>
>> Could you please be a bit more descriptive about what is asking for this
>> password? Are you speaking about something the BIOS is doing or
>> something more at the operating system level, if so what operating syste=
m?
>
> Sorry, I accidentally wrote "hardware acceleration" when I meant
> "hardware encryption". On boot, the BIOS asks for a password to unlock
> my SSD (which is encrypted).

The computer is likely doing a "warm" reboot and does not reinitialize=20
everything at boot.

Try booting with the reboot=3D linux kernel parameter set to different=20
values, e.g. "cold" or "bios"

See kernel-parameters.txt from the Linux kernel sources

HTH,
   Peter G.

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"I do not think the way you think I think."
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