Re: [opensuse] running mkinitrd on a dead system

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 01:00 -0800, John Brown wrote:
Hello SUSE users,

I encrypted my laptop's hard disc using instructions from
http://en.opensuse.org/
Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO. (To be short, I now have
LUKS-
encrypted filesystems, and also a custom initrd image, which asks me for
password
before every boot. I created the initrd image using a pached mkinitrd
script.)

In my infinite stupidity, I decided that I need another kernel. I
downloaded kenel's rpm
version, and it promptly overwrited my custom initrd image. Now, when I
boot my laptop,
I am greeted with a message that my encrypted (cryptsetup-LUKS)
filesystem is
unknown, and can't be mounted.

I tried to boot from CD using Knoppix, and execute mkinitrd from it, but
it failed as it can't
find /etc/sysconfig/kernel (It's obvious that Knoppix does not have this
folder). I can
mount my encrypted filesystems from Knoppix, so the question now is
which command
line parameters should I give mkinitrd so that it correctly creates
initrd - finds my kernel
and copies it to my boot (unencrypted) partition


Before running mkinitrd use chroot to the mount point of the encrypted
filesystem. That will have the command operate on that filesystem.

--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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