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Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 13:04:12 +0000

I un-did a couple of those last commands I posted above, just to test.
Removed /boot/efi/EFI/devuan (it was a copy of the debian dir)
Removed /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT (the removable media path)

The installed system still boots, That leaves 'dpkg-reconfigure grub...' and 'update-initramfs...' both of which I tried previously without success. So I'm not exactly sure what fixed it.

Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 10:24:35 +0000

I think your last post more concerns this topic: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4701

rolfie

Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:38:46 +0000

The following things did not work:
- boot installer iso in rescue mode and reinstall grub
- boot installer iso in rescue mode, open a shell in the installed system and run and or all of the following in any order, both before and after removing grub-efi-amd64-signed.
dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64
grub-install
grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan
update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs -u -k 5.15.0-1-amd64
- boot installer iso in rescue mode and install grub to removable media path

This did not create /boot/efi/EFI/devuan

grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan

Last commands in root's history I executed in a chroot before it started working:

cd /boot/efi/EFI
cp -r debian devuan
grub-install --bootloader-id=devuan
dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64 (and choose yes to force removable media path
update-initramfs -u -k 5.15.0-1-amd64

Edit: I keep forgetting to mention that I can't get qemu to boot from the iso when it's attached to the disk image file. This does work for me with any of my other disk image files. I have to boot the iso from grub command line.

Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 17:19:26 +0000

Nope. It's not fixed. I'll have to look into this later.

Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 16:29:36 +0000

Confirmed. I got the same behavior in qemu. Chrooting the installed system from a live-iso and installing cryptsetup and cryptsetup-initramfs solved it.

Note: I used the server iso and installed without mirror. cryptsetup (and cryptsetup-bin, I think) is in the iso, but it didn't get installed in the system, even though I chose encrypted lvm, but cryptsetup-initramfs was missing.

Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:54:31 +0000

Thank you, drilling down into modules and devices showed no /dev/mapper nor cryptsetup traces.

Rebooted from the netinstall in rescue mode: installed cryptsetup-bin and cryptsetup-initramfs, now it works. Both packages need to be added to the installer.

rolfie

Re: Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:00:01 +0000

Just a guess - maybe cryptsetup-initramfs package is missing. It doesn't get installed automatically with cryptsetup.

Encrypted Daedalus preview booting problems

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:22:31 +0000

Installed from the Daedalus netinstall preview dated Nov. 29th in VBox 6.1.28. Efi mode, encrypted LVM,, just basic system install, no GUI. Install went fine, the first reboot ends in an endless loop of messages "Volume group vgsys not found. Cannot process volume group vgsys." Does not ask for the PW, eventually ends in the initramfs shell. When I try to open the encrypted volume I get "cryptsetup not found".

An upgraded VM based on Chimaera works fine.

Whats wrong?

rolfie