Help! luks & partitions

William John Murray bill.murray at stfc.ac.uk
Mon Jun 15 08:10:36 UTC 2009


   Help please, I cannot boot...
     I had a messy setup with multiple partitions. I deleted one
(/dev/sda6 I think) and gparted renumbered the ones after it, so now
I have 1-8, with no missing hole.
   This kills my boot.
I had a grub entry like:

title Fedora
    root (hd0,6)
   kernel /vmlinuxXX root=/dev/mapper/luks-YYY rhgb quiet
   initrd /initrdXXX.img

This does nothing; I editted the (hd0,6) into (hd0,5) and it simply
asks for the luks password over and over.
I can boot in with a rescue cd or live cd; the rescue cd creates the luks
entry the same point in /dev/mapper, so I don't know what is wrong with
my boot sequence.

   Is there a way to check where grub puts my luks?
   Or is there a way to get back my old partition numbering, inserting
  a new partition in between 2 existing ones in number?
   Or should I try to make a new grub.conf - how did f11 make the 
existing one anyway?
   Or some other solution?

  Thanks for any help!
      Bill





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