On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 08:41:36AM -0400, Phil Turmel wrote: > > So, cryptsetup saw and properly handled /dev/md2. > > [...] > > Well. /dev/md1 is assembled correctly as far as I can tell. That > make me wonder what else might be in play. First, it would be good to > know if the luks data is truly intact at the 1MB offset. As a test, > please add a linear device mapper layer that skips the 1MB. Like so: > > echo 0 1683724288 linear /dev/md1 2048 | dmsetup create mdtest That worked fine. I then successfully unlocked mdtest with: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/mdtest cmd1 > Depending on grml's udev setup, this may prompt you to unlock > /dev/mapper/mdtest. Otherwise, use cryptsetup to test it, and then > unlock it. Do *NOT* mount yet. Run "fsck -n" to see if it is intact. root@grml /dev/mapper # xfs_check /dev/mapper/cmd1 xfs_check: /dev/mapper/cmd1 is not a valid XFS filesystem (unexpected SB magic number 0xd0f1b462) xfs_check: size check failed xfs_check: WARNING - filesystem uses v1 dirs,limited functionality provided. xfs_check: read failed: Invalid argument xfs_check: data size check failed cache_node_purge: refcount was 1, not zero (node=0x1835a30) xfs_check: cannot read root inode (22) cache_node_purge: refcount was 1, not zero (node=0x1835c80) xfs_check: cannot read realtime bitmap inode (22) xfs_check: size check failed xfs_check: WARNING - filesystem uses v1 dirs,limited functionality provided. xfs_check: read failed: Invalid argument xfs_check: data size check failed bad superblock magic number d0f1b462, giving up > I also wonder if the md device itself was partitioned, maybe with EFI > GPT, and the grml liveCD doesn't support it? (Long shot.) Please > show "zcat /proc/config.gz |grep PART" root@grml /dev/mapper # zcat /proc/config.gz |grep PART CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="" CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS=m # CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_UNALLOCATED is not set # CONFIG_MTD_REDBOOT_PARTS_READONLY is not set CONFIG_MTD_AR7_PARTS=m CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION=y # CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_CUMANA is not set # CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX is not set CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ICS=y # CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_ADFS is not set # CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_POWERTEC is not set # CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_RISCIX is not set CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION=y CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION=y CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION=y CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION=y CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y CONFIG_SYSV68_PARTITION=y > I'm running out of ideas. Well thanks a lot for trying at least. At least now I understand how 'linear' can be used. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html