On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:37:44 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote:
> So, I found a way to manually mount luks partition in Grub and boot from it.
>
> What I did to get there:
> set root=(hd0,gpt2)
> cryptomount -a
>
> This gave me the unencrypted version of the root partition as (crypto1)
>
> set root=(crypto1)
> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/luks-UUID
> initrd /initrd.img
> boot
>
> The problem only is to get the UUID format right. When you're asked to enter
> the decryption key in a normal boot, it's shown, but without any dashes. But
> the format must be the same eg Disks shows it. But sure if a Grub tool can
> show that, but worst case you'll be booted into a initrd BusyBox terminal
> where you can just look inside /dev/mapper and see the true path that needs
> to be entered.
>
> Question is, how do I repair the boot process so I don't have to boot by hand
> every time?
Like this?
└─sda6 8:6 0 406.2G 0 part
└─luks-f3fbb9ba-a556-406c-b276-555e3e8577bc 254:1 0 406.2G 0 crypt /home
That's groups of 8 4 4 4 12.
Cheers,
David.
