Already broke my Slackware install :-/
by lionoceros from LinuxQuestions.org on (#539S4)
Just installed Slackware on an encrypted drive by combining LUKS and LVM as described in README_CRYPT on the install media. Made an initrd that worked. Everything went well until I upgraded Slackware packages (including the kernel) with slackpkg and rebooted (well, hibernated). Slackpkg ran lilo automatically. Now the system won't boot. It hangs after I enter my encryption password. I suspect the problem is that the initrd made with the install kernel does not match the currently installed kernel. Didn't catch which exact version of the kernel is now installed.
I tried to boot from the USB install media, chroot, and run mkinitrd again hopefully for the new kernel. That didn't work because, as it says, modules are not installed for 4.4.14. I have never chrooted from install media before so I could have done something wrong there too.
Please help me fix this problem. I can't figure out how to reinstall the original kernel or make a new initrd.
Thanks
I tried to boot from the USB install media, chroot, and run mkinitrd again hopefully for the new kernel. That didn't work because, as it says, modules are not installed for 4.4.14. I have never chrooted from install media before so I could have done something wrong there too.
Please help me fix this problem. I can't figure out how to reinstall the original kernel or make a new initrd.
Thanks