On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:43:08 +1000 Alex Samad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > I am building a new laptop, I downloaded the daily build debian > installer, i choose the encrypted lvm option, problem is when it reboots > it can't find the rootfs, i have to wait till it times out and then do a > cryptsetup -T1 luksOpen /dev/sda2 sda2_crypt and then a scan for the lvm > pv / vg and then active the lv, then a ctrl+d to exit out of the console > and restart the boot up sequence. > > not sure what is going wrong ? plus I choose grub2 - but this looks > more like the initramfs stuffing up I just spent hours over a similar problem, although I was doing a manual partition (PATA HDD -> primary partition -> luks encrypted volume -> lvm). In my case, the problem seems to be this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492790 and see also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522041 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507721 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503062 What finally worked for me is to use the phrase "target=hda4_crypt,source=/dev/hda4,lvm=lizzie-root", where /dev/hda4 is the raw partition on the HDD, hda4_crypt is the luks encrypted volume, lizzie is the lvm VG, and root is the lvm volume containing the root FS. You can add this to the kernel command line, like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686 cryptopts=target=hda4_crypt,source=/dev/hda4,lvm=lizzie-root root=/dev/mapper/lizzie-root ro or you can put it in a (Debian specific?) kopt line in grub's menu.lst, like this: # kopt=cryptopts=target=hda4_crypt,source=/dev/hda4,lvm=lizzie-root root=/dev/mapper/lizzie-root ro and then run update-grub, IIRC. [IIUC, This just causes some Debian script to update the actual kernel command line as per the first method.] Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
