User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008111217 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc10 Firefox/3.0.4 I use a Lenovo Y510 Laptop. I swap several SATA drives into the chassis. I installed F10 to a 8GB USB Drive. So that no matter what drive I have in my system I can boot into Fedora. I am using LUKS to encrypt the partition on the USB Drive. My problem is that whatever HD was in the system when I installed to the USB Drive, has to be present or I cannot boot Fedora. For example, if I installed F10 to my USB with my 250gb HD in the system, I can ONLY boot into Fedora (through Post Bios selection) with the 250gb drive. If I put my 320gb and try to boot to the USB, It will not mount the encrypted volume on my USB Drive. The same applies if I install to my USB drive with the 320gb hd in my laptop. Furthermore, If I install F10 to my USB drive with NO drive in the system, I can only boot into F10 sucessfully if I do not have a drive isntalled in my system. If I try to install with any drive attached, I will get a mount error for my LVM on the USB Drive. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install F10 to USB drive with HD "A" in chassis 2.Replace HD "A" with any other HD. 3.Try to Boot into F10 from USB drive through Bios Boot order override. Actual Results: If I try to boot into F10 on my USB Drive with any difference in internal hardware, regardless of typing my password correctly so it can decrypt the encrypted volume. System will not boot, and will return Boot error. Expected Results: Since I am booting from a USB drive, there should be no affect from the hardware (internal HD) on the machine I am using. The internal HD inside my laptop should not have bearing on being able to mount the volume in my USB drive, since I am trying to boot from the USB drive. Due to this error, I can only access F10 from this system and only with a certian internal drive. I am restricted from using this F10 install on any other computer as well as not being able to run F10 and access the files on my other internal drives. (being a laptop I can only use one internal drive at a time) Im unsure if my component selection above is correct. It was the only thing I could find that seemed close.
I guess the problem is, that mkinitrd uses /dev/sd* in the initramfs file with cryptsetup. You can check this with: lsinitrd /boot/initrd* | grep cryptsetup Afaik it is not even guaranteed that the same drives get the same device files even if the overall drive configuration is not changed, unless only one device is used of course. Therefore I assign this to mkinitrd.
*** Bug 465660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm rather new to Linux, so Im not very strong with using Command line, unless I am told exactly what to use and when. I know Dos commands very well, but thats of no use here. I entered the line you posted above and this is the what I got: [System@localhost ~]$ lsinitrd /boot/initrd* | grep cryptsetup gzip: /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img: Permission denied cpio: premature end of archive gzip: /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img: Permission denied cpio: premature end of archive Is there any particular time I Should be using the command you posted? I assumed you wanted me to enter it in a command line window once the system has booted. Is there a way that I can do this prior to fully booting? I'll gladly do anything I can to help, I will just need clear instructions.
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