Help! luks & partitions

[Bill Davidsen]

William John Murray wrote:
>   Well, I gave up. I installed F11 again on the new space and copied the 
> files over.
> What a waste of time...
> 
It looks like you waited only five hours between asking the question (in the 
middle of the night in the US) to completing the reinstall. Glad I read the 
followup before I answered the original.

Good luck with your new install.

> William John Murray wrote:
>>
>>   Help please, I cannot boot...
>>     I had a messy setup with multiple partitions. I deleted one
>> (/dev/sda6 I think) and gparted renumbered the ones after it, so now
>> I have 1-8, with no missing hole.
>>   This kills my boot.
>> I had a grub entry like:
>>
>> title Fedora
>>    root (hd0,6)
>>   kernel /vmlinuxXX root=/dev/mapper/luks-YYY rhgb quiet
>>   initrd /initrdXXX.img
>>
>> This does nothing; I editted the (hd0,6) into (hd0,5) and it simply
>> asks for the luks password over and over.
>> I can boot in with a rescue cd or live cd; the rescue cd creates the luks
>> entry the same point in /dev/mapper, so I don't know what is wrong with
>> my boot sequence.
>>
>>   Is there a way to check where grub puts my luks?
>>   Or is there a way to get back my old partition numbering, inserting
>>  a new partition in between 2 existing ones in number?
>>   Or should I try to make a new grub.conf - how did f11 make the 
>> existing one anyway?
>>   Or some other solution?
>>
>>  Thanks for any help!
>>      Bill
>>
>>
> 


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