On Monday 20 October 2008 19:13, Hatta wrote: > Yes, I have run 'update-initramfs -v -u -k 2.6.24-1-686' > > This had no effect. > > I cannot find any documentation as to how the system is supposed to find > and > unencrypt encrypted drives. When in the boot process is the system > supposed to load these drives? What commands does it use? In what files > do those commands > reside? Where is the documentation for this stuff? All I can find are > HOWTOs, > which contain absolutely no theory, and so are absolutely useless for > troubleshooting. > > Can *anybody* help me with this?
I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but you can investigate from within busybox, within limits, of course -- the "mount" command is available, and you can step through the various start-up scripts in the initramfs. Try booting with "break=mount" as a kernel argument, and see how things look from inside -- this will dump you into busybox just before the root fs gets mounted. The kernel command line is in /proc/cmdline, so you can see if the bootloader maybe made hamburger out of your parameters. Failing that, you can unpack the initramfs (it's a cpio archive) onto a convenient system and step through the boot process manually -- almost everything in there is a shell script, and I think they start with /sbin/init, or something equally obvious. The initramfs's search strategy has got to be in there, and I bet it's not complicated. I recently untangled some net-booting issues this way. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]