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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Cannot access or boot encrypted drive (gave up waiting for root device...) Post 302962339 by sea on Saturday 12th of December 2015 08:09:14 AM

12-12-2015

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Image is WAY too HUGHE!
I have fullhd screen and need to scroll.
Please reduce the image size/dimension for future images.
4901x1808 is too large, specialy for such few text -> when ican read the text on the image, i cant read anything of the forum.

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* Did you overwrite the EFI partition (as in reused AND formated)?
* Did you leave out the existing EFI partiton (not used at all)
* Did you mark cryptdevice:/dev/sda5:CRYPTNAME (where sda1 is your crypted partition, and CRYPTNAME its dev mapper name) (in /etc/default/grub :: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.
* In most cases, simply reinstall Linux (in the hope you have /home as its own partition), which should fix the 'no OS found' screen, and eventually the missing crypt partition as well - if done right in the installer - depends on your distro.
* In case you built your own kernel, did you enable the dm+encryption modules and did you rebuild initcpio before rebooting?

Hth to get started.

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repartit

REPARTITION(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    REPARTITION(8)

NAME

       repartition - load a partition table

SYNOPSIS

       repartition device [partition-file]

DESCRIPTION

       Repartition  uploads  a new partition table for the partitions of device.  The table is obtained from the first sector of partition-file if
       given, device otherwise.  Device may refer to the whole drive or a primary partition, depending on whether you want to upload  a  partition
       or a subpartition table.  The partitions will be truncated to fit within the enclosing device like the disk driver does, unless the numbers
       are coming from partition-file.

EXAMPLES

       repartition /dev/hd0
       repartition /dev/hd4 /etc/hd4.table

       Reload the partition table of drive 0 setting /dev/hd[1-4], and the subpartition table of /dev/hd4 setting /dev/hd4[a-d] using a file.  The
       latter may be useful if you need more than the 4 subpartitions a single Minix partition gives you.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The new table is printed on standard output.

FILES

       /dev/hd[0-9]

SEE ALSO

       hd(4), part(8).

BUGS

       The disk must be in use for the changes to stick.  The partition table of an idle disk will be reloaded on the first open.

AUTHOR

       Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)

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