Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-22 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 19:41:09 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 22/10/2018 à 17:49, David Wright a écrit : > > On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 14:42:09 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 22/10/2018 à 05:50, David Wright a écrit : > > > > > > > > Noted above. This is to give you partition alignment

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/10/2018 à 19:48, Joe a écrit : On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:41:09 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: GRUB does not even need a MiB BIOS boot partition. AFAICS, the biggest generated core image embedding all required drivers fits into 128 KiB. But all kernels get upgraded, and many people like to

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-22 Thread Joe
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 19:41:09 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > GRUB does not even need a MiB BIOS boot partition. AFAICS, the > biggest generated core image embedding all required drivers fits into > 128 KiB. But all kernels get upgraded, and many people like to keep a spare one around, just in

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/10/2018 à 17:49, David Wright a écrit : On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 14:42:09 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 22/10/2018 à 05:50, David Wright a écrit : Noted above. This is to give you partition alignment of 1MiB for efficiency. For GPT disks like this, I also add a 3MiB partition (giving m

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-22 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 14:42:09 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 22/10/2018 à 05:50, David Wright a écrit : > > > > Noted above. This is to give you partition alignment of 1MiB for > > efficiency. For GPT disks like this, I also add a 3MiB partition > > (giving me 4MiB alignment) set to "BIOS b

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/10/2018 à 05:50, David Wright a écrit : Noted above. This is to give you partition alignment of 1MiB for efficiency. For GPT disks like this, I also add a 3MiB partition (giving me 4MiB alignment) set to "BIOS boot" which, like it says, allows it to be booted in legacy mode if ever require

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 02:06:05 (+), D&P Dimov wrote: > Dear Mathew, > Thank you for looking into this further. > I did not have to change anything in the BIOS - it was fine all along. Here > are some differences from what you have and some of my issues: > 1. I did not have a 1MB free space. I

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 00:05:45 (+), Matthew Crews wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 10:29 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez > wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:25:09PM +, D&P Dimov wrote: > > > > > I did a new install of latest Debian 9.5 stable on a new

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread Matthew Crews
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, October 21, 2018 10:29 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:25:09PM +, D&P Dimov wrote: > > > I did a new install of latest Debian 9.5 stable on a new Dell laptop. > > Debian is the only OS there now. If I encrypt /, home, an

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:25:09PM +, D&P Dimov wrote: > I did a new install of latest Debian 9.5 stable on a new Dell laptop. Debian > is the only OS there now. If I encrypt /, home, and swap, it won't boot after > install. If I leave them unencrypted, it boots fine. What am I missing? > Tha

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread D&P Dimov
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 w

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread D&P Dimov
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

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread Matthew Crews
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 an

Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted

2018-10-21 Thread Matthew Crews
On 10/21/18 6:25 AM, D&P Dimov wrote: > I did a new install of latest Debian 9.5 stable on a new Dell laptop. Debian > is the only OS there now. If I encrypt /, home, and swap, it won't boot after > install. If I leave them unencrypted, it boots fine. What am I missing? > Thanks! > Did you reme