[Gllug] Problem with encrypted Debian root.

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:34:17AM +0100, Andrew Back wrote:
> On 18 July 2010 15:38, David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
<snip>
> With both entries Grub knows to go to /dev/sda2 (/boot), and in the
> root of that fs I have:
> 
> andrew at mosschops:~$ ls -l /boot/vm*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      25 2010-07-14 21:44 /boot/vmlinuz ->
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686

I think that symlink should be to vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 instead of
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1507408 2010-06-21 11:42 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
> 
> Grub seems to load a kernel whether the symlink or versioned kernel
> are selected from the menu. However, when you pick the symlink it
> doesn't seem to be able to find the root fs despite both entries
> having the same "root=/dev/mapper/mosschops-root ro" appended.


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