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Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot



On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:50:56PM -0500, lineman@halo.nu wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I have a Debian Etch system which I recently upgraded to v5.0.2.  The file system was encrypted with LUKS at install time.
> 
> The upgrade appeared to go well, however when I boot into the new system, it gives the following error:
> 
> Volume group "hostname" not found
> cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda5 not found
> Begin: Waiting for root file system
> 
> This may be unrelated, but it also says:
> Driver 'sd' needs updating - Please use bus_type methods.
> 
> After 5 minutes it says:
> 
> Gave up wating for root device
> 
> And drops to a busybox shell.

do you have your root fs in fstab by LABEL or UUID if so I reported a
bug report against cryptsetup.

change to a dev like /dev/mapper/<device> and then run update-initramfs
-u 

> 
> The /dev/sda devices seem to come up ok, and sda is the same device name that it had before.
> 
> When I select the old 2.6.18 kernel in the GRUB menu, it works fine and I can access my data.   Every time I select the newer 2.6.26 kernel, I get this error.
> 
> How can I fix this issue?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 

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