Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt
On 18/03/13 08:40, J.A. de Vries wrote:
On 2013-03-18 03:03, green wrote:
J.A. de Vries wrote at 2013-03-17 13:46 -0500:
I have been messing around with fstab, crypttab, blkid.tab, grub and
initramfs and every time a new dependency rears its ugly head. The
system still keeps asking for the original name of the partition with /
on it. I am thinking of giving up and just starting anew (reinstall).
That'll probably cost me less time. It's not the way I like to do
things, but I just don't have time to solve this mess.
Have you run `update-initramfs -u`?
I did.
I also adapted grub.cfg to point it to the correct partition and ran
update-grub.
Still, at boot the system keeps asking for a partition with the original
name. A grep on /etc and /boot does not find it anymore, but the
systems keeps asking for it.
Grx HdV
I had a similar problem with "Where does the update-initramfs hook get
the kernel name from?"
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00796.html
I just realised that I posted the solution - to myself.
Here it is.
> According to the docs you mentioned, the script gets supplied the
kernel version from
>
> "uname -r".
>
> The output I get is "2.6.32-5-amd64", not "26.32.5-amd64.squeeze" as
you see above,
> so the documentation must be wrong.
>
> Philip
>
>
I finally went ahead and did an "apt-get source initramfs-tools" to
check this out
after upgrading to Wheezy.
The postinstall hook was calling "update-initramfs -u"
This script looks in $STATEDIR which is /var/lib/initramfs-tools by
default, for
versions to sort so it can get the latest one.
The problem was that if you create a few flavours yourself, delete them in
/boot and don't know about $STATEDIR then "update-initramfs -u" will forever
more tell you about non-existent versions.
The solution in this case is to delete the checksum files in $STATEDIR
that match
the ones you already deleted in /boot.
The correct procedure is to "update-initramfs -k some-version -d".
There should probably be a Debian web page to store solutions to
problems like
this.
Regards,
Philip
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