Precise Server Installer does not allow to complete the encrypt partitions procedure
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Bug Description
I have tried 3 times to isntall Ubuntu Precise using the Server Installer amd64 and it proved to be impossible to complete the task about encrypted partitions.
First i need to clarify that i have the dstro Mageia 2 Beta 3 installed in the disk with /home encrypted.
I burn the iso ubuntu-
Now i select to activate the partitions and the problem starts here because it always first asks to enter the passphrase for the partitions /dev/sda8 that is isntalled in the disk as the Mageia /home encrypted partition and important to refer that Mageia uses cyper aes-xts-benbi which is NOT RECOGNIZED by ubuntu text installer and apepars to be the problem.
But also why is the installer asking the passphrase about an encrypted partition thats not part of the created encrypted partitions in the isntaller?
Anyway when it asks the passphrase for the Mageia /home encryted partiton (/dev/sda8) i enter the passphrase but continues asking the passphrase as it was an invalid one, but the issue is that isnt able to recognize a partition created with the cypher aes-xts-benbi, and then stucks there and it never passes to the encrypted partitions that were created in the installer.
Thus making impossible to continue the instalation with encrypted partitions.
Forgot to say that in my POV the biggest problem is the installer asks passphrases about encrypted partitions that already exist in the disk. That should not happens, it should only handle (and ask passphrases) for the encrypted partitions that are created during the install proccess.
This way would be irrelevant if the installer would or not support other cyphers. www.ody. ca/~dwhodgins/ Luks-Howto. html#Changelog
Still would be better that the installer could also handle the benbi cypher since its the most secure, please refer to http://