[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#456032: Processed: Re: Bug#456032: Ping; just making sure this bug was noted after moved to initramfs-tools (debian-kernel list)

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 08:35, David Härdeman wrote:
> Daniel said in the BR:
> > Installation succeeded however on reboot the encrypted LVM partition
> > was not activated. The messages during startup (after install), were:
> >
> > Setting up cryptographic volume sdb1_crypt (based on /dev/sdb1)
> > cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sdb1 not found
> >
> > The system then reports on megaraid logical disks (appearing as sda,
> > sdb) and then hangs (but responds to keyboard and reboots with
> > Ctrl-Alt-Del)
>
> Maks: if the disks do appear later, wouldn't that indicate a bug in
> udevsettle returning before the RAID card is done initalizing (or a bug in
> the driver for the card...perhaps it should support scsi_wait)? I'm not
> sure what cryptsetup should/could do about it.
>
> Daniel: a workaround you might want to try is to boot with the "rootdelay"
> option, for example "rootdelay=10" should give your card 10 seconds to
> catch up before cryptsetup and the other scripts are executed.
>

That workaround does in fact work.  That is, with rootdelay=10 I am able to 
boot the system.

Thanks!

Daniel
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