After upgrade to F14, LUKS partition apparently unreadable

[Adam Huffman]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 15:48 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I've entered bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620202 as
>>> > I can no longer boot Fedora on my laptop, after finding a LUKS error
>>> > with the F14 kernel.
>>> >
>>> > Not a big problem for me as there's nothing significant stored on the
>>> > laptop but this would be pretty serious for a normal upgrade.
>>>
>>> Yes but a big problem if you have a requirement to encrypt your root
>>> partition or the entire install. Sounds like an alpha blocker to me.
>>
>> Being able to install with encryption is indeed an Alpha criterion:
>>
>> "The installer must be able to complete an installation using the entire
>> disk, existing free space, or existing Linux partitions methods, with or
>> without encryption enabled "
>>
>> So if this is broken it does block Alpha. But see Bruno's reply.
>
> I tried adding init=/sbin/upstart and it got further but still wasn't
> able to boot successfully.  I've since wiped what was on there,
> re-installed F13 and then used an F14 Alpha TC2 netinst disc to
> upgrade to F14 Alpha.  This time the encrypted partitions are
> seemingly dealt with.  However, boot never completes.  I have a photo
> of the latter - is it best to make a new bugzilla entry for this, or
> put it on your Trac, or?
>

Adding init=/sbin/upstart allows the boot process to complete, so
there does seem to be a problem with the upgrade from F13 to F14 Alpha
using this TC2 image.