On Thursday 20 December 2007 08:35, David Härdeman wrote: > Daniel said in the BR: > > Installation succeeded however on reboot the encrypted LVM partition > > was not activated. The messages during startup (after install), were: > > > > Setting up cryptographic volume sdb1_crypt (based on /dev/sdb1) > > cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sdb1 not found > > > > The system then reports on megaraid logical disks (appearing as sda, > > sdb) and then hangs (but responds to keyboard and reboots with > > Ctrl-Alt-Del) > > Maks: if the disks do appear later, wouldn't that indicate a bug in > udevsettle returning before the RAID card is done initalizing (or a bug in > the driver for the card...perhaps it should support scsi_wait)? I'm not > sure what cryptsetup should/could do about it. > > Daniel: a workaround you might want to try is to boot with the "rootdelay" > option, for example "rootdelay=10" should give your card 10 seconds to > catch up before cryptsetup and the other scripts are executed. >
That workaround does in fact work. That is, with rootdelay=10 I am able to boot the system. Thanks! Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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