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 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:18 pm Post subject: Failed boot: Device /dev/sda2 doesn't exist [SOLVED] |
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Hi all,
I'm trying to install to a new laptop and struggled with EFI/gpt grub and booting. Right now as I use grub to boot, the initramfs fails to find the (encrypted btrfs) root disk. The (initramfs busybox, after grub) error message is:
| Code: | | Device /dev/sda2 doesn't exist or access denied |
Listing the devices gives:
Where it should also list
| Code: | | /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 |
sda2 is the encrypted lvm container for a btrfs filesystem. The problem isn't encryption because the process doesn't get to that point. Rather, the disk partition is simply not found.
My thought is kernel, but I rather religiously took the output of lspci -k (from a functional systemrescuecd) and compared it to my kernel config options, and also to the lspci -k in busybox.
| Code: | 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 5904 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c148
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 5916 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c148
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 02)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem
Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem
Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
Kernel modules: mei_me
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d12 (rev f1)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d58 (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c148
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP PMC
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 9d71 (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c148
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Sunrise Point-LP SMBus
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi |
Looking just at the drivers and modules:
| Code: | Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
Kernel driver in use: proc_thermal
Kernel modules: processor_thermal_device
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
Kernel driver in use: intel_pch_thermal
Kernel modules: intel_pch_thermal
Kernel driver in use: intel-lpss
Kernel modules: intel_lpss_pci
Kernel driver in use: mei_me
Kernel modules: mei_me
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c_i801
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
Kernel modules: iwlwifi |
They are all included as modules or compiled into the kernel. The busybox doesn't seem to include iwlwifi nor proc_thermal modules (neither of which would seem to relate to finding the hard driver partition), but the rest are there. Any thoughts on the next step?
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| Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Hi all, answering my own question, it was a kernel config problem. This was needed:
| Code: | | CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y |
I hope this helps somebody else. Marking it solved. |
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