-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 19:54:09 +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: > > [ Earlier attributions were missing, therefore I am not entirely sure > who said what already. ]
It's been me and Jay Flory talking so far. >>>> In all the above cases I got this line: >>>> >>>> "Setting up cryptographic volume sda5_crypt (based on /dev/sda5)" >>>> before the "Enter LUKS passphrase" line. So even if I changed grubs >>>> menu.lst according to above, the computer still tries to decrypt my >>>> root filesystem from sda instead of from sdb. I guess the initrd file >>>> that comes with Etch needs editing, correct? But what to edit and how? >>>> I've never changed any initrd file before. > > [...] > >> My bad. I meant to write root=/dev/sdb1 in my previous mail but >> accidentally wrote root=/dev/hdb1. When I tried to change grubs >> menu.lst-file, I wrote root=/dev/sdb1, though. I even tried it once >> again after you corrected me. But it still would not work. It still wrote: >> >> "Setting up cryptographic volume sda5_crypt (based on /dev/sda5)" >> before the "Enter LUKS passphrase" line. >> >> Thanks for trying to help me though. I guess it would have worked if I >> had not had an encrypted base file system. > > If I understand your situation correctly then you need indeed to rebuild > your intird so that it uses the correct root partition. (It may be > possible to simply edit the existing initrd to reflect the change, but I > would not know how to do that. You should keep a backup of the current > initrd in any case.) > > How do you access your system at the moment? Can you boot from a rescue > CD and mount the encrypted root partition? At the moment I remove my other sata hd and then boot my computer with only the Etch sata hd in. Before I edit the initrd file I have to find out exactly what in it I should change to reflect the change. If I find a solution I'll post it here. - -- Regards, Thomas Anderson "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21 OpenPGP public key: http://todu.dyndns.org/pubkey.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGKq5K1iUg5vMWvSERAgnIAJwPNoM8vDpr0iFRc6UC5+IsfC6ilQCfTpL/ MrqTvZ0Cge60Gl8GOMaUlQc= =MgHK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
