On 08/22/2011 06:53 PM Milan Broz wrote: > On 08/23/2011 12:33 AM, ken wrote: >> On the other hand, if I do a "vgdisplay /dev/sda5", I get a series of >> lines saying "Input/output error" along with the locations of those >> errors, ending with the statement 'Volume group "sda5" not found'. >> >> I'd think that if vgdisplay can't locate the volume group, then vgchange > > No. vgdisplay does not take physical path as argument, this > command must fail. (but io errors indicate something more > serious - what exactly it says?) You're right... vgdisplay takes the VG name as its arg. > > Whatever, seems you are doing several mistakes, lets try this: > > /dev/sda5 is LUKS device for sure, you have to first activate: > > 1) cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda5_crypt # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda5_crypt Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sda5: Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sda5: Enter LUKS passphrase for /dev/sda5: Command failed: No key available with this passphrase. I tried three different passphrases. None worked. This is the original problem. If I knew the passphrase-- even just for the data partition-- I'd be done... the whole problem would be solved for me. Since I don't know the passphrase for the command above, I can't do any of the rest of these commands. > does it work and device is properly unlocked? If so, then > > 2) please paste output of: "blkid /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt" > > I guess it will be LVM PV. If so then run > > 3) vgscan ; vgchange -a y > > 4) paste here output of "blkid /dev/mapper/*" > > Maybe you can add also "blkid /dev/sd*" so we can be sure what's > type of partitions you have there - the grub entry you mentioned > does not match the device on /dev/sda5. > > (I would say paste here output of "lsblk -f" but this command is not > yet in CentOS5.) > > Thanks, > Milan Thanks, Milan. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
