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#1 2011-10-22 01:46:47
- piratebill
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- From: Sol System
- Registered: 2011-10-20
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Changed boot manager to burg....cant boot now
Here is my setup (which worked fine with grub, and fine with burg when I was using Ubuntu):
sda1 -/boot
sda2 -/root (encrypted with LUKS
sda3 -/win7
I replaced grub with burg this afternoon and I know burg is installed successfully (the shiny new themes are displayed), however when I select arch I get this error:
"ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/mapper/MemoryCore'. (Memory Core is the label for sda2
The burg entry for arch looks like this:
savedefault
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set .......image long uuid here
echo 'Loading Linux linux...'
linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/MemoryCore ro quiet splash
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
I think burg doesn't know how to decrypt sda2, but I am not sure. I just switched to arch two days ago, so I apologize if I am missing something obvious. Any ideas other than a reinstall?
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#2 2011-10-22 10:29:04
- VOT Productions
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Re: Changed boot manager to burg....cant boot now
I'd say boot from Live CD, install grub, and then follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Burg exactly to the letter.
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#3 2011-10-22 10:41:29
- the.ridikulus.rat
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- Registered: 2011-10-04
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Re: Changed boot manager to burg....cant boot now
Try recreating your initramfs. Seems like a problem with initramfs rather than burg (or the bootloader).
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#4 2011-10-22 16:25:31
- lilsirecho
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Re: Changed boot manager to burg....cant boot now
AFAICT grub does not support partitioned boot........and burg may not do so either. ..... the same error is obtained in grub and burg is a take-off friom grub.
I have had partitioned boot for some time until linux3.0 upgrade which initiated the failed boot from boot ..partition and the same error as you experienced. I am not certain that the error message tells the full story but is a convenient error to utilize.
Initramfs may contain the answer I have been searching for a long time..........
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#5 2011-10-22 16:45:16
- piratebill
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Re: Changed boot manager to burg....cant boot now
I got it working. This page helped me fix it
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114045
linux /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/your-encrypted-device cryptdevice=/dev/sdaX:your-encrypted-device ro quiet
sdaX is your root parttition (X representing the number, e.g. sda1)
your-encrypted-device: the name of your mapped device, e.g. topsecret or something smile
Just edited the line above and BAM. Burg booted fine. Thank you all for the help 
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