On 5/19/15, Arno Schuring <aelschur...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> kernel loads and starts doing things for 7 seconds. > [..] > > Note that you can add break=premount to the kernel cmdline > to force an initramfs shell, then use sh -x /scripts/$phase/$script > to manually step through the initramfs procedure. > > You can use "grep maybe_break /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init" to > check the valid break= values, and their order.
stepping sounds like a great way to debug, but i'm out of my depth. i don't know what premount is (is that a phase? a script? something else?), or what initrd does (all i know is it's a ramdisk and has a fake root fs for some reason). i will of course be happy to try this, but i won't know what scripts to run, in what order, or what the results will mean. > Does the partition exist, or does the /dev/disk/by-uuid/... > symlink exist? The error message clearly indicates it's looking > for a /dev/disk/by-uuid symlink, so the presence of /dev/sda3 is > not enough. the symlink exists (confirmed by ls). the partition exists (confirmed by successfully running cryptsetup luksOpen). > Also, can you verify that /conf/conf.d/cryptroot exists > in the initramfs and contains the correct line? instead of rebooting to determine this and trying to transcribe it, is it ok to extract the initrd as it is on disk? i did so and got this: "target=toshiba-root,source=UUID="...",key=none,rootdev" (where "..." is the correct uuid according to blkid for /dev/sda3, which is the partition on which encrypted root resides). does that seem correct? >> in fact, in the initrd busybox shell, i can do cryptsetup >> luksOpen /dev/sda3 toshiba-root. i do not know how or where >> to mount it, however. mounting it on / not work. > > You need to mount it (readonly) on /root. Then exit the initramfs shell > and the boot should continue normally. on /root, as in the superuser's home dir for dot files etc.? > Hope this helps, it does. thank you for replying. i'm totally ignorant about grub, initrd, booting, etc. but willing to learn what i need to in order to be able to get my toshiba drive to boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CADYyg0=-jaytfmpzh9hwuzxtaqzcqiyn1dnkn35b7vg0f6d...@mail.gmail.com
