[SOLVED] dmcrypt boot ERROR unable to find root device

dezza · 2012-02-23 10:11:32

Rebooted a few mins ago and suddenly it looks like my root device is not mapped to /dev/mapper/root

:: Running Hook [keymap]
:: Loading keymap...done
:: Running Hook [encrypt]
:: Running Hook [openswap]
Device /dev/sda2 doesn't exist or access denied.
:: Running Hook [resume]
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev
/mapper/root'

Update failure?

Last edited by dezza (2012-02-24 15:52:37)

Gcool · 2012-02-23 10:30:55

There are several other threads in recent history with similar problems (and solutions). Take a look here for example.

dezza · 2012-02-23 14:42:14

Thanks.

But it did not solve my problem reading his thread ..

Haven't changed anything.

jasonwryan · 2012-02-23 17:42:00

dezza wrote:

Rebooted a few mins ago and suddenly it looks like my root device is not mapped to /dev/mapper/root
:: Running Hook [keymap]
:: Loading keymap...done
:: Running Hook [encrypt]
:: Running Hook [openswap]
Device /dev/sda2 doesn't exist or access denied.
:: Running Hook [resume]
ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev
/mapper/root'
Update failure?

Partial upgrade failure, more likely.

As is the case in most of the other threads, chroot in do a complete update and rebuild your initramfs...

dezza · 2012-02-23 20:23:52

Now I have mounted my old system via live cd mounted {proc, dev, sys} .. Chrooted and tried running mkinitcpio -k 3.2.6-2-ARCH ..

ERROR: Hook 'udev' can not be found.

.. and I doubt I should remove udev from the hooks array at mkinitcpio.conf ?

Last edited by dezza (2012-02-23 20:24:55)

jasonwryan · 2012-02-23 20:45:52

jasonwryan wrote:

... chroot in do a complete update and rebuild your initramfs...

dezza · 2012-02-23 22:45:03

Sorry my friend I did actually do 'pacman -Syu' but it was so recent it didn't upgrade any packages

jasonwryan · 2012-02-23 22:55:06

What does pacman -Q udev show (in the chroot)?

falconindy · 2012-02-23 23:07:51

Reinstall udev in the chroot and please post your pacman.log.

dezza · 2012-02-23 23:51:52

jasonwryan wrote:

What does pacman -Q udev show (in the chroot)?

Output:

udev 181-2

as you wish:

pacman -S udev

.. --reinstalling .. [Y/n] ..

Forgot anything?

pacman.log shows succesful building of the mkinitcpio on my latest kernel update.

Last edited by dezza (2012-02-24 14:55:38)

dezza · 2012-02-24 15:53:16

Got it working thanks alot!

Arch Linux

#1 2012-02-23 10:11:32

[SOLVED] dmcrypt boot ERROR unable to find root device

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