Bug#538086: installation-reports: Installation works, but neither is user created nor a root password set
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.
> The second problem I encountered was that neither my user account was created
> during installation nor was the root password set. This left the system fairly
> unusable until I used a rescue system to mount my encrypted disk, added a user
> to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (without a password) and subsequently added
> this user to the sudoers group. In this way I could aquire root on my new
> system.
This is confusing; maybe your media was corrupted in some way since I
don't remember of seeing this report and it is used in every
installation. Could you try to reproduce it and report back to us?
Cheers,
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