Thanks bfree!
A bit late reply bc the notebook had to go in for a mobo replacement, so i couldn't test more.
That command really helped me find most of the references to the cryptVG stuff.
I moved stuff out of the way in /etc/lvm/archive, /etc/lvm/backup, /etc/lvm/cache and /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
also in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
mv /etc/crypttab /etc/crypttab.BAK (see previous post)
recreated the initrd and ran update-grub
rebooted
but i still couldn't get past these errors:
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mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
Volume group "cryptVG" not found
Skipping volume group cryptVG
Unable to find LVM volume cryptVG/swap
INIT: version 2.88 booting
Uning makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S.
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=console-setup)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=udev, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
too many loops! (loop=100001, dep->name=bootlogd, src->name=stop-bootlogd-single)
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev/to be fully populated...udevd[1253]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/mtp-probe'
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What does "cat /proc/cmdline" say in the initrd shell after it has failed to boot?
can't get any commandline to do "cat /proc/cmdline"
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Did you re-install grub using the chroot method from the manual ...
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yes, i had to, but the old MBR would be useless anyway (i forgot to save the old disk's sda[12]'s MBR)
but i knew i could easily recover from such situations thanks to aptosid's fine manual
More ideas?
thank you in advance |