I figured out how to do the /boot/efi partition:
But that made no difference - won't let me proceed:
Choosing EFI from the list is what lets me proceed:
When I chose that, it boots fine.
But if I do the same and encrypt the root, home, and swap it wouldn't boot.
UNTIL NOW.
Not sure why - it could be that earlier I had only the EFI partition, without
the /boot, which for some reason allowed it to boot when /, home, swap were
unencrupted, but won't boot when they were.
I have installed it about a dozen times trying different things, I really don't
think that I did anything different this time, but I must have, since it boots
now.
Thank you for your help Matthew!
On Sunday, October 21, 2018, 10:49:42 AM EDT, D&P Dimov <lddi...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
so I probably deleted the EFI partition that was there with Windows when I
started installing Debian.
The installer It lets me create efi (not /boot/efi), but when I add a /boot
partition, it doesn't let me put an On for bootable flag if the EFI has that
flag already. I guess only one partition canhave a bootable flag. Which one
should I assign it to?
Thanks Matthew!
On Sunday, October 21, 2018, 10:26:03 AM EDT, Matthew Crews
<mailingli...@mattcrews.com> wrote:
On 10/21/18 6:41 AM, D&P Dimov wrote:
> Definitely, I did not encrypt the /boot. Only the swap, home and root are
> encrypted.
>
> I should have mentioned also that I have an EFI System Partition instead of
> /boot, as it makes me create it. If I have /boot instead, it doesn't let me
> go on and makes me create a EFI. But it boots fine, as long as the home,
> root, and swap are not encrypted.
>
> Thanks!
You will need to have both a /boot/efi partition, and a /boot partition,
for encrypted boot.
So your partition table would need to look like this for what you want
to accomplish:
/boot/efi
/boot
LUKS - /
LUKS - /swap
LUKS - /home
That said I'm not an expert on EFI installation via the Debian
installer. Can someone else chime in please?
