Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Dinyar Rabady<dinyar.rabady@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The first problem I encountered while trying to install a system with an
>> encrypted LVM was that the USB stick was taken to be /dev/sda while the
>> harddisk was /dev/sdb. This changed at first boot when the usb stick was
>> unplugged.
>>
>> This first problem could be fixed either by booting into a rescue system
>> and first changing grub's menu.lst to point to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0)
>> and then unpack the initrd.img file and change /conf/conf.d/cryptroot to
>> point to /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, or alternatively I pulled the USB
>> stick out right before detecting the harddisk. (priority=medium is helpfull
>> for timing here.) This seemed to have no negativ effects on the installation.
>
> This is not going to happen in new Debian Installer release for
> Squeeze since we're not using UUID to avoid those problems. Would be
> nice if you could check a current snapshot if it indeed works for you
> and tell us.
>
On the current daily image my harddisk is still listed as /dev/sdc. Is this ok?
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