* bug#27069: LUKS partition ruined by guix init
@ 2017-05-25 15:53 someone
2017-05-25 16:41 ` Marius Bakke
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: someone @ 2017-05-25 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 27069
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.
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* bug#27069: LUKS partition ruined by guix init
2017-05-25 15:53 bug#27069: LUKS partition ruined by guix init someone
@ 2017-05-25 16:41 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-29 23:12 ` Mark H Weaver
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2017-05-25 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: someone, 27069
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someone@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.
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* bug#27069: LUKS partition ruined by guix init
2017-05-25 16:41 ` Marius Bakke
@ 2017-05-29 23:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-05-30 15:22 ` Marius Bakke
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mark H Weaver @ 2017-05-29 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marius Bakke; +Cc: 27069
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
> someone@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.
Mark
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2017-05-29 23:12 ` Mark H Weaver
@ 2017-05-30 15:22 ` Marius Bakke
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2017-05-30 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark H Weaver; +Cc: 27069-done
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> someone@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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