Help with rEFInd install on Arch, with LUKS encrypted LVM.
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Hi all,
I'm trying to get rEFInd working as my Boot Manager on Arch Linux. I'm hoping to have sda1 of my SSD as an EFI partition of 512MB working as my /boot and then sda2 containing an LVM partition encrypted with LUKS and holding my swap and root partition. The issue I'm having is that I just can't seem to get rEFInd to open the LUKS partition, I've tried everything on the wiki and asked the arch community, but nothing seems to be going my way.
Has anyone done this and can give me an idea of what the sda1 partition should look like and what my .conf files should look like?
rEFInd can't open an encrypted volume, but it shouldn't need to do so. With The ESP mounted as
/boot, the kernel and initrd file will be there, and will not be encrypted, so rEFInd will be able to launch the kernel, which will then be responsible for decrypting everything else.