* Juergen Lemke <lemke_juergen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Until yesterday I had a hard drive with three partitions, one used > as a root partition encrypted with loop-aes, another unencrypted > partition and swap space. I had to delete the unencrypted partition > and divide it into two smaller, separate partitions, which I did > using cfdisk. As a result, cfdisk shows that the partition > encrypted with loop-aes changed names from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda4. Shouldn't be a problem. I successfully migrated encrypted systems to different partitions. > After this change I could not boot my encrypted system from the > usual usb stick. I booted using a knoppix cdrom, mounted my usb key > under /boot and edited initrd.conf on the usb key so that it read > > CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda4 > > (rather than /dev/hda3) and then ran > > $ sudo ./build-initrd.sh /boot/initrd.conf [this copied a bunch of > files and only generated warnings about not being able to preserve > permissions on two files] which ones? > $ sudo umount /boot > $ sudo syslinux /dev/sdc > > But this did not work. When I now try to boot from the usb stick, I > get this message: Are all the necessary device nodes present in your initrd image? namely /dev/hdaX and /dev/sdaX > Where did I mess up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. please post your initrd.conf, if all fails I can clone an initrd for you with it. -- left blank, right bald loop-AES FAQ: http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.loop-aes.php
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