Re: my initramds won't activate my encrypted root fs, although debian's work

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:22:39PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm at my wit's end over this, after much googling and grappling with
> the problem for hours.
Hi

I am having a similar problem but with the stock debian kernels.  What i
have found helpful is the kernel option break, you could try break=top.
this will break into the initiramfs process, give you a shell, then you
can try the commands yourself and see what is happening.

Alex

> 
> I recently reinstalled Debian on my laptop, since I wanted to move to
> whole disk encryption, and although I could have done it without
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> 
> Any hints or advice will be much appreciated.
> 
> Celejar



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