Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > >> some...@selfhosted.xyz writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have several times over tried to install to a LUKS-partition with >>> btrfs and failed but last time I almost had success. guix init command >>> complained that the bios_grub flag wasn't set after many hours of >>> compiling packages and therefore didn't install grub at first. I >>> checked the partition with "cryptsetup luksUUID /dev/sda1" before >>> rerunning guix init and it gives me the luksUUID so the partition >>> seemed intact up to that point. However, after setting the bios_grub >>> flag and rerunning guix init, the installation is successful but >>> afterwards the cryptsetup luksUUID command says that the partition is >>> not a valid luks device, so it seems like the GRUB installation part >>> is what ruins the partition. >> >> What is your partition layout? The "bios_grub" partition must be a >> separate (typically tiny) partition with no other data on it. > > FWIW, my current development system is GuixSD running with a > LUKS-encrypted Btrfs root partition with GUID partition table. > I don't remember encountering any difficulties during the install.
Interesting. Did you reserve some sectors before the first partition? Or do you have the root partition marked as "bios_grub", which is what seemingly wiped the LUKS headers here?
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