Hi, On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Otavio Salvador<ota...@ossystems.com.br> wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dinyar Rabady<dinyar.rab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The first problem I encountered while trying to install a system with an >> encrypted LVM was that the USB stick was taken to be /dev/sda while the >> harddisk was /dev/sdb. This changed at first boot when the usb stick was >> unplugged. >> >> This first problem could be fixed either by booting into a rescue system >> and first changing grub's menu.lst to point to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0) >> and then unpack the initrd.img file and change /conf/conf.d/cryptroot to >> point to /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, or alternatively I pulled the USB >> stick out right before detecting the harddisk. (priority=medium is helpfull >> for timing here.) This seemed to have no negativ effects on the installation. > > This is not going to happen in new Debian Installer release for > Squeeze since we're not using UUID to avoid those problems. Would be > nice if you could check a current snapshot if it indeed works for you > and tell us. >
I have not tryed this yet due to time constraints, but I'll report back as soon as I get round to it. >> The second problem I encountered was that neither my user account was created >> during installation nor was the root password set. This left the system >> fairly >> unusable until I used a rescue system to mount my encrypted disk, added a >> user >> to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (without a password) and subsequently added >> this user to the sudoers group. In this way I could aquire root on my new >> system. > > This is confusing; maybe your media was corrupted in some way since I > don't remember of seeing this report and it is used in every > installation. Could you try to reproduce it and report back to us? > I actually tried twice, though with the same installation media. I don't have any plans to reinstall in the near future though (at least not until the multi-arch stuff screws up my system again.. ;) ) so sorry about that. > Cheers, > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br > -- Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
