Re: Can anyone boot a system using btrfs root with linux 3.14 or newer?

[Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 04:40:33PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> The screen shot provided makes it clear that one of the following kernel parameters is incorrect:
> 
> > root=/dev/mapper/cryptroot
> 
> > rootflags=subvol=root
> 
> So either the dmcrypt volume hasn't been opened, thus isn't available; or rootfs isn't on a subvolume named root found at the top level of the file system. So I'd say this isn't a btrfs problem, rather it's due to some earlier misconfiguration that's preventing rootfs from being mounted.

   You'll need an initrd to run cryptsetup (or whatever) to collect a
passphrase and decrypt the volume before you try to mount it. This
sounds like a case for an initrd again.

   Hugo.

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