Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-27 Thread gofloss gofloss
ok, i have more data. i am still going crazy trying to get it to boot. first, what does "cryptopts=source=" in the error message? what does "-r" mean? Check cryptopts=source= bootarg:cat/proc/command line or missing modules, device:cat/proc/modules ls/dev -r ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/[the

mount says an existing file system does not exist (was Re: strange booting behavior)

2015-05-25 Thread gofloss gofloss
hi arno, thank you for your explanation. i don't understand why i cannot mount the root partition. when it does not boot, it comes up with initrd busybox shell. i do cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/disk/by-uuid/[uuid] toshiba-root. this works. blkid shows that /dev/mapper/toshiba-root is there and i

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-19 Thread gofloss gofloss
On 5/19/15, Arno Schuring wrote: >> kernel loads and starts doing things for 7 seconds. > [..] > > Note that you can add break=premount to the kernel cmdline > to force an initramfs shell, then use sh -x /scripts/$phase/$script > to manually step through the initramfs procedure. > > You can use "g

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-19 Thread gofloss gofloss
w usb device and it mentions my mouses and stuff. i have to clear the screen each time. /proc/cmdline says BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/toshiba-root ro too many modules to transcribe, but include dm-crypt and dm-mod. i would be very grateful for any help. On 5/17/15, gofloss

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-17 Thread gofloss gofloss
On 5/17/15, Petter Adsen wrote: > You could also check if there are any updates available for your BIOS. the only update is a windows signing update. i am thinking that the best thing to do is to get the internal toshiba hard drive to work. it is, after all, starting to boot. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: strange booting behavior

2015-05-17 Thread gofloss gofloss
On 5/17/15, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2015 05:42:40 + > gofloss gofloss wrote: >> the thumb drive is quick to describe. it's in the bios boot >> sequence, but even though i put grub on it, it doesn't boot. >> it just defaults to the next item

strange booting behavior

2015-05-16 Thread gofloss gofloss
please tell me if any further information is needed. i am running wheezy and i want to upgrade to jessie. i can't do that until i have an immediately-usable backup drive booting properly. in my case, this means the same environment (not a rescue cd). for my second drive i will happily boot from