gentoo

Desktop using systemd

Full disk-encryption

cat > /etc/portage/package.use/dracut <<EOF
sys-apps/systemd cryptsetup
EOF

emerge -avuNDq world
emerge -avq dracut

If you're installing gentoo from another live-cd than gentoo you may need to add --kver <kernel-version> and --no-hostonly to dracut command.

dracut -f

Dracut requires some arguments added to the kernel arguments line to identify the LUKS partition and rootfs.

root=UUID=<uuid-of-rootfs>
rd.luks.uuid=luks-<uuid-of-luks-container>
rd.lvm.vg=<lvm-vg-name>

Dracut keymap

Dracut should use /etc/vconsole.conf of your rootfs to identify a proper keymap. Unfortunatelly it seems like there is a bug where Dracut auto-generates this file on boot and ignores your host-specific settings. To enforce a specific keymap Dracut will also read the kernel arguments line for a option named rd.vconsole.keymap which can be set to the same value as in /etc/vconsole.conf

rd.vconsole.keymap=de