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Bug#489544: installation-reports



On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:47:02AM -0700, David L. Emerson wrote:
> I've just finished a similar installation with the Lenny beta 2 
> installer (encrypted lvm on bootable usb flash drive)

Thanks.  I would have been more happy if you would have used a daily
build, but it's great nevertheless.

> re Problem 3: STILL A BIG PROBLEM. Here are the boot messages:
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> Loading, please wait...
>   Volume group "socrates" not found
> Setting up cryptographic volume sda2_crypt (based on /dev/sda2)
> cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda2 not found
> 
> [... wait about 5 seconds ...]
> 
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
> 
> [... forehead -> desk ...]
> 
> [... wait about a minute, then it drops to busybox because 
> the /dev/mapper/socrates-root_vol does not exist ...]
> 
> so, it looks like I will have to manually reroll the initramfs again. If 
> you want me to test again with a later version, I'll try and figure out 
> a way to do that :)

Could you give me the installed version of the initramfs-tools and
cryptsetup packages?

I have seen similar issues being fixed in recent version of those
packages, and I am not sure if they have migrated to Lenny yet.
(The development version of debian-installer installs testing by
default.)

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
lunar@debian.org                    : :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
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