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nbros652 / LUKS-guided-manual-partitioning

Easily install Ubuntu with FDE and semi-manual partitioning
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Boots to Initramfs Busy Box #7

Open evennotodd opened 4 years ago

evennotodd commented 4 years ago

I have Windows 10 installed on my hdd with the Windows system reserved partition being the first partition on the disk followed by my Windows system partition encrypted with Veracrypt which is installed to the MBR. On my custom install I created a 1gb boot partition (where I installed Grub to) I also created an encrypted ext4 LUKS vm partition as per your guide and maybe a few others (I’ll look tonight). Anyway, my system boots and I hit escape at Veracrypt where it takes me to Grub and I boot Elementary OS. From there the Elementary logo shows up like its booting but I am not asked for a password and after that sequence is done I am taken to a Busy Box Initramfs instead of my login screen. To my recollection the only command that had an issue was update-grub but can that be the issue if Grub worked fine (maybe)?

evennotodd commented 4 years ago

Note: In Veracrypt if I enter my password, Windows 10 boots alright.

evennotodd commented 4 years ago

5B66756C-AF76-41C6-97B0-0461482E89E1 Here are the errors thrown during boot.

nbros652 commented 4 years ago

I can't say that I tried this script on anything other than vanilla Ubuntu. You're mileage may very on other distributions or flavors of Ubuntu. I have noticed that sometimes the password entry box is not visible. When you get to the screen where it looks like it hangs, before it drops to the BusyBox shell you took a picture of, try typing your LUKS password and hit enter. See if it's just a case of Elementary OS not handling the password prompt well.

evennotodd commented 4 years ago

I’ll try that and see. Thanks!

evennotodd commented 4 years ago

That didn’t seem to work and it still dropped to the Busybox.

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 I can't say that I tried this script on anything other than vanilla Ubuntu. You're mileage may very on other distributions or flavors of Ubuntu. I have noticed that sometimes the password entry box is not visible. When you get to the screen where it looks like it hangs, before it drops to the BusyBox shell you took a picture of, try typing your LUKS password and hit enter. See if it's just a case of Elementary OS not handling the password prompt well.

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RobinKnipe commented 4 years ago

This is classic bad grub config. I think specifically in your case, grub can't find the encrypted medium it should be passing off to, and so it just hangs. You should be able to press when you see the elementary logo and you should see the grub commands being run as it tries to find the target partition. I had a problem (I think with Kubuntu 19) where the update-grub script just wouldn't complete because of a long timeout waiting for the grub probe utility to try and not find anything. I found that issue was specific to that version, when I successfully installed an older version of the same OS. You might try another version of elementary...