luks related change is prevented boots of system with encryption over raid

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Oct 29 00:37:36 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 15:55:57 -0700,
  Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> > I rebooted this morning after pulling in some changes from last night (a mix of rawhide and koji updates) and my system was not booting.
> > I so far have noticed that the /dev/mapper/luks-8 naming format has changed and I think that is relating to my problems. I haven't gotten
> > things totally fixed, but i now have my file systems mount under /mnt/sysimage when rebooting. Hopefully now that the /dev directory is
> > there a new mkinitrd will clean things up.
> >
> > I think using the luks ids in the names is a good idea, but it would have been nice to have something automatically handle the transition.
> > I haven't seen a big heads up about this and there probably should have been one. It also was a bad thing to change right before the freeze.
> > So far I have changed /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to use the new names. I'll report back again after hopefully finishing getting
> > things to work again.
> >
> This related?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468856

After my last try I did notice that it was trying to switch to the new root before asking for my passphrase so that it is likely that the
problem is the same. I'll look at it again and see about using an older version of plymouth. Though I may have to change the device names
back if that is something that is only different for rescue mode.




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