Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Hatta wrote:

> A short while ago I set up a system with whole disk encryption.  I used
> the guided LUKS
> partitioning sytem to make 3 encrypted lvm volumes, root, home, and
> swap_1.
> 
> Anyway, I broke that installation, so I needed to reinstall.  I used a
> netboot image in expert
> mode, manually opened the encrypted volume, and installed a new system
> to root. It seemed
> to go fine, but on rebooting it does not prompt me for my passphrase,
> and it cannot find the
> root filesystem to mount, I eventually end up in busybox.
> 
> I can mount my encrypted volumes just fine from a live CD, so they're
> ok.  So there's something wrong
> with the boot process, debian's just not finding it.   Here's the error
> message I get:
> 
> Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top
> ... [5.769352] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
> [   5.771151] device mapper: ioctl: 4.13.0-ioctl (2007-10-18)
> initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
>     Volume group "debian" not found
>     Volume group "debian" not found
> done.
> Begin: Waiting for root file system ... done.
> 
> And then I just wait for BusyBox.  Anyone have any idea what's going on
> here?

did you regenerate the initrd.img after installing?

you update-initramfs of equivalent to update the initrd.img for your kernel

regards