Thanks Arno for your answer. Il Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:27:40 +0200, Arno Wagner ha scritto: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 05:30:40PM +0200, davide wrote: >> Hi. >> I just replaced my hard disk in my laptop. I would like to boot from >> the old one that now lives in a usb case. This disk, now in usb, is >> encrypted with dm-crypt (it is my formely system). > > Plain dm-crypt or LUKS? it should be LUKS. (as /etc/crypttab reads "luks") >> I tought could be a grub problem, but grub can load and find (hd0,3) >> where I've my boot partition. So I suppose the disk is still seen as >> sda, and the partition numbers are the very same as when the disk lived >> in my pc. >> any idea? > > The device is likely not /dev/sda anymore. If you have any other > USB/SATA device, that may come first. Note that being the first BIOS > device does not ensure being numbered sda by the kernel. It may be > possible to force the USB device to be sda with a kernel option. I googled for the options I found out a pdf full of it. I'll try with rootdelay and if it fails I'll dig for the order option. Thanks a lot, d. --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx
