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Old 02-20-2014, 01:21 AM   #1
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Fatal: Illegal 'root' specification when compiling kernel

When compiling the kernel, at the 'make' stage I received this error.
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Fatal: Illegal 'root' specification /dev/cryptvg/root
I do have an LVM/Luks setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Old 02-20-2014, 03:12 AM   #2
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man initrd, then search for crypt. There are examples in the man pages.
 
Old 02-20-2014, 09:00 AM   #3
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Changing the Lilo configuration file to reflect the new volume group name and running 'make' again solved the problem.
 
  


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