[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#428329: Bug in debian-Installer/initramfs when I use "GUID Partition Table (GPT)" with a crypted root filesystem

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey Andreas,

It seems likely, that the bug you discovered is caused by lilo.

Could you give us the information we requested below?

greetings,
 jonas

On 26/11/2007 David Härdeman wrote:
> >> /init: /init: 1: cannot open /dev/root: No such device or address
> >
> > [...]
> > I guess that some configuration script at installation simply ignored
> > the fact that the rootfs is encrypted, and instead of the dm-crypt root
> > device (like /dev/mapper/root) added /dev/root to /etc/fstab.
> 
> I haven't used lilo for years on any machine that I admin but it sounds
> like the lilo stage of debian-installer got the root device wrong (and
> passes root=/dev/root to the kernel or something like that).
> 
> Please provide the contents of /proc/cmdline using the initramfs shell.
> Also, when in the initramfs shell, you might be able to do something like
> symlink /dev/root to /dev/mapper/whatever_the_real_root_is_called and then
> type "exit" which will try to resume the boot. If that works, you should
> be able to inspect the contents of the lilo config file.