What you describe as your goal sounds very normal to me, and achieving this is possible. Well, I guess your problem is related to your crypttab, that looks very strange to me, looks screwed. I wonder how you created this, this hasn't been done via the installer.

Lets take your crypttab apart.
1.) vol1 as target name is unusual. The installed normally would name the target like sda2_crypt. Its just a name, and if the update-initramfs works ok, it should do the job.
2.) /dev/mapper/grp1-root sound like it isn't pointing to the luks container, this sounds more like you are listing the LVM container pointing to root. That cannot work. You should list there /dev/sda2, better even use the UUID of the encrypted partition.

You may try to fix this manually with a chroot if you know what you need to do.

The alternative is to start from scratch with an up to date ASCII CD or DVD. Don't worry about LVM, both have all you need on board. It does not matter if you use the cli or the graphical installer, normal or expert mode. It works with or without EFI, with msdos or gpt partitions. When you come to partitioning, choose manual. Create a /boot partition with extx file system and set size and parameters. Then create sda2 as volume for encryption. Configure the encrypted volume, let the installer erase it, set you PW. Then create the LVM on top of the encrypted volume, define the details, and go on with the installation. This is a very rough description. In the internet you can find detailled documentation with screen shots etc if your search for this. You may use Debian stuff that can be as old as Squueze or Lenny, the principle hasn't really changed. 

If you need more help on details, please ask.

rolfie

BTW: is there a font in Devuan repositories that can be used for the Logo in text like prociono in Debian?

rolfie

You can set up the guest as you like, as long as you use a simulated disk for the vbox.

rolfie

unetbootin was removed from Debian with I think Stretch.

Try your luck with: https://unetbootin.github.io/linux_download.html

rolfie

The pkla stuff goes back to the question if you have consoilekit or elogind working in the background (I assume you did not compile anything yourself). Please refer to https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1952 and https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2023.
That should give some insight and keywords for further research on the internet.

Good luck, rolfie

Update: still no ongoing issues, also my wife does not complain about her PC. Different HW, both identical setup with ASCII, Mate and Lightdm.

Maybe fixed by an update? Don't know....

Regards, rolfie

Maybe Mate 1.20 brings a *.pkla settings file that disables the Suspend. I used such a setting to actually disable Suspend, since I do not use it. Please read https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2023.

Regards, rolfie

Read this post, maybe it helps.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1804

Good luck, rolfie

Hi Walter,

you have selected a very complex and granular setup. Is that really required? I have setup ASCII encrypted on a SSD (what is the difference to a hard disk?) with:
- efi as vfat
- boot 2048 Mbyte ext4
- system partition 64 GByte luks encrypted, LVM contained with two logical volumes for swap and /
- home on separate drive, luks encrypted

Is simple, no problems to be expected with one of the granular partitions to run full. Requires one password for the system and one for home. home on the separate drive was mounted past the installation.

You can naturally setup a LVM with 9 logical volumes and separately encrypt tmp, swap and home. 

BTW: if you mount your hard disk containing your old home to /home on the SSD, the data on the mount point are no more accessible. You only will see the hard disk data there.

Regards, rolfie

I have done a fast install in VBox with slim. Now I remember why I kept lightdm. I do not like slim. I need to enter two topics manually, I miss options lightdm shows.

I will stick to lightdm.

Thanks, rolfie

An addition to this thread: on a fresh install an a different PC based on the ASCII RC CD, the systemd-backend was not installed, but the consolekit option did not work. I had to switch to the elogind option. Refer to: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2023

All with cli installed from CD, then installed xorg, lightdm and Mate desktop with apt.

Regards, rolfie