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I can't get a Ubuntu 14.04 Virtual server to boot correctly. It's recently been cloned "dd if=/dev/sda of=vmimage" The Physical has a RAID1-LVM-DMCRYPT-LUKS configuration, The boot sequence aborts and drop to the BusyBox shell.

Begin: Waiting for encrypted source device

I can see above the message that it was unable to find any volume groups.

No volume groups found

I suspect this is due to the raid not starting up correctly.

Looking at /proc/mstat indicates that md0 is active and md1 is inactive

I have to stop md1, and force it with --run to start

mdadm --stop /dev/md1
mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 --run

I am now able to mount partitions on /dev/md0 and unlock the dmcrypt volume manually if I so desire.

If I exit the shell, it tries to unlock the dmcrypt container, but still fails to boot.

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How do I fix this?

Marinus
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Your problem is caused by booting with one virtual disk cloned from two physical disks. After manually booting, you could try this if you have md0 uncrypted and md1 crypted :

vi /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/workaround_mdadm : #!/bin/sh sleep 5 mdadm --stop /dev/md1 mdadm --stop /dev/md0 sleep 5 mdadm --assemble --scan Note : Feel free to change the sleep values as well.

Make the file executable : chmod 755 /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/workaround_mdadm

Create new initrd files in /boot : update-initramfs -k all -c

Reboot with your virtual disk and check if you are prompted for a passphrase.

Hrvoje Špoljar
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