#[SOLVED (I can't read)] Cryptdevice, lvm, can't get initramfs to find root
spare hawk
Turning into 2 hour installation...
Trying not to get frustrated but idk what I'm missing here
spiral drift
I guess that underscore is actually your cursor?
spare hawk
Yeah
spiral drift
What happens when you try and boot this?
Generally the root= argument is something like /dev/mapper/vg0-root depending on how you have named things
so /dev/mapper/pondpool-root perhaps?
spiral drift
When you unlock your luks in the iso it should get mapped in a similar way, so ls /dev/mapper may be useful to look at
spiral drift
Ah you should perhaps fix the fstab
spiral drift
But looking at this I think I was right. Your volumes are on /dev/mapper/pondpool-*
mighty pasture
wtf what is this partition table???? ive never seen that? why did u partition like this?
i dont want to be rude im just curious
spare hawk
Insane
spiral drift
wtf what is this partition table???? ive never seen that? why did u partition li...
Not OP but that's luks/lvm. The luks container has the LVM inside it, and then the lvm volumes are mapped to /dev/mapper/* where they can then be mounted as normal
spare hawk
Crypt base, with lvm on top
spare hawk
Is this after being challenged to decrypt?
Before
mighty pasture
Not OP but that's luks/lvm. The luks container has the LVM inside it, and then t...
why would OP do that?
spiral drift
hmm can you show your mkinitcpio hooks?
spare hawk
Imma double triple check the UUID
mighty pasture
for fun?
spiral drift
for fun?
LUKS is full disk encryption so you can imagine why that is good. LVM is a convenient way to make virtual partitions
Mounting a partition straight out of a LUKS container can be a pain. lvm makes it all a lot easier and nicer
spare hawk
I have block encryption lvm2 fsck ...
spiral drift
it's encrypt isn't it?
spiral drift
Insane
It shouldn't be getting this far without asking you to decrypt. That's the lvm/fsck part of the init process
spare hawk
spiral drift
Mounting /dev/mapper/<whatever>-root should be after the decrypt, and after the mapper has done its stuff
spiral drift
I have ``` block encryption lvm2 fsck ...```
Could you also post all these hooks? Could be something we're missing. The whole mkinitcpio.conf would be good to see
mighty pasture
LUKS is full disk encryption so you can imagine why that is good. LVM is a conve...
hmmmm okay, my drive isnt encrypted but cool
spare hawk
hmmmm okay, my drive isnt encrypted but cool
spiral drift
Not attempting to decrypt at all makes me think it's a misconfiguration in mkinicpio
spare hawk
I must protect my battlefield 4
spiral drift
Not attempting to decrypt at all makes me think it's a misconfiguration in mkini...
On this topic... Do you have cryptsetup installed on your system? It comes on the iso but it also needs to be on your disk and thus available to be put in the initramfs
I only ask because I have done exactly that before
"y no decrypt" - well, helps to install the thing lol
spare hawk
What's the path for mkini
Fond er
Double checking uuid
I WAS MISSING A CHUNK
spare hawk
BC65
spiral drift
In the UUID
spiral drift
I recommend some bashism for this sorta thing? 🙂 saves a lot of typing and typos
Could do something like sudo blkid | grep -i sda2 | sudo tee -a /etc/default/grub to get the UUID from the block device into the grub config file. Then you can go in and copy-pasta it where it needs to actually be
spare hawk
Could do something like `sudo blkid | grep -i sda2 | sudo tee -a /etc/default/g...
I thought copy paste was a myth in live environment
spiral drift
Oh I mean in nano or vim
That's just a quick and dirty way of getting the block UUID into the file
then you can hack it
spare hawk
I see, tyvm 💜
[SOLVED (I can't read)] Cryptdevice, lvm, can't get initramfs to find root
mighty pasture
... solved