Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 07.01.24 20:33, songbird wrote: i see you've solved your issue, but i just wanted to point out that it works and is ok for people who want to try it out. Says who?

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-07 Thread songbird
Richard Rosner wrote: > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I > today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded > without any trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me if > I want to boot with fwupd or with the still very broken

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 04.01.24 19:49, Richard Rosner wrote: On 04.01.24 19:02, David Wright wrote: Could you post the new grub.cfg file, so that people running testing, and following along the thread later, can see how boot-repair fixed it? Cheers, David. Let's hope the mailing list let's this go through. It

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 07.01.24 18:07, David Wright wrote: I compared your new grub.cfg with mine (suitably decimated and edited) and the significant differences are very few; extra modules are loaded: cryptodisk, luks2, gcry_rijndael, gcry_rijndael and gcry_sha256. Myset root='hd0,gpt5' is replaced by set

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Jan 2024 at 19:49:43 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On 04.01.24 19:02, David Wright wrote: > > Could you post the new grub.cfg file, so that people running testing, > > and following along the thread later, can see how boot-repair fixed it? > > Keep in mind, this is based on the

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 6:18 PM Joel Roth wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 06:19:01PM +0100, Richard Rosner wrote: > > In theory, it should > > be as simple as refind-install. So the only reason I could guess to be the > > reason would be that rEFInd might not be capable of handling LUKS, which

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
On 04.01.24 19:02, David Wright wrote: Could you post the new grub.cfg file, so that people running testing, and following along the thread later, can see how boot-repair fixed it? Cheers, David. Let's hope the mailing list let's this go through. Keep in mind, this is based on the

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-04 Thread David Wright
On Wed 03 Jan 2024 at 22:00:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On 03.01.24 21:04, Eddie wrote: > > On 1/3/24 14:23, Richard Rosner wrote: > > > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond > > > repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. > > > Installation succeeded

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 06:19:01PM +0100, Richard Rosner wrote: > In theory, it should > be as simple as refind-install. So the only reason I could guess to be the > reason would be that rEFInd might not be capable of handling LUKS, which > would be quite disappointing. My experiences are with

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
Well, that was a bust. I accidentally didn't just format the EFI partition, but deleted it. So I re-created it with the help of disks and gparted (to leave the first 3 MB empty, I remeber that being a fix added kinda recently to combat bad BIOS/EFI implementations, since Windows is doing the

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
You should really re-read the FAQ that was sent in just two days ago... On January 4, 2024 11:58:28 AM GMT+01:00, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 2:45 AM Richard Rosner wrote: >> >> Wow, what a bunch of unhelpful comments. >> >> First, if it wasn't for Eddie recommending

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 2:45 AM Richard Rosner wrote: > > Wow, what a bunch of unhelpful comments. > > First, if it wasn't for Eddie recommending boot-repair, "broken beyond > repair" in fact was the very fitting term. Here was Eddie's comment" I have had very good results using "Boot-Repair"

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
Good to know that it should be possible. But as mentioned, these symbols only offer me to boot from grub or fwupd. F2 also doesn't show that much more, it merely gives me the option to boot into the BIOS settings. Maybe I'll have to completely purge all Grub packages, wipe the existing EFI

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Pocket
On 1/4/24 02:45, Richard Rosner wrote: Wow, what a bunch of unhelpful comments. First, if it wasn't for Eddie recommending boot-repair, "broken beyond repair" in fact was the very fitting term. Second, have you maybe considered that I've already read the home page of rEFInd and came to the

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:23:29PM +0100, Richard Rosner wrote: > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today > tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without any > trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me if I want to boot >

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
I have kept the referral to the old problem in the topic for a reason. Been there, done that. I'm not entirely sure how, but boot-repair was the only thing that was able to fix Grub. Before that I've reinstalled it countless times, thanks. But since this is very much not an answer to the question

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
Wow, what a bunch of unhelpful comments. First, if it wasn't for Eddie recommending boot-repair, "broken beyond repair" in fact was the very fitting term. Second, have you maybe considered that I've already read the home page of rEFInd and came to the same conclusion? Besides the fact that the

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner wrote: > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, > I am not sure what you mean by "broken beyond repair." I have no issues with Grub on Debian 12 on AMD64. I had no issues with Grub on Debian 11 or Debian 10 on AMD64

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner wrote: > > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I seriously doubt this is the case. I'm guessing the problem lies elsewhere. > I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without > any

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
Thanks, this actually did the job. I don't know what it was, but my guess is it was the step "purge Grub before reinstalling it". PS: rewrote to the old subject, as this is clearly an answer to the original problem, as it doesn't have anything to do with replacing Grub all together. On

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Eddie
I have had very good results using "Boot-Repair" software to recover Grub difficulties. Eddie On 1/3/24 14:23, Richard Rosner wrote: So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without any trouble.

Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded without any trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me if I want to boot with fwupd or with the still very broken Grub. Am I missing

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
On 01.01.24 21:20, Richard Rosner wrote: On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's uneccessarily difficult to find some sort

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to even do this, it might as

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:55:29 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > > > On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > Like this? > > > > > > > > └─sda6

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to even do this, it might as well be a documentation for users having such troubles in the future. Also, besides the way that I have no clue how it would have to look

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:55:29 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright > wrote: > > >Like this? > > > > └─sda6 8:60 406.2G 0 part > >└─luks-f3fbb9ba-a556-406c-b276-555e3e8577bc 254:10 406.2G

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
Yes, exactly. Is there a way to show that from inside Grub? Lsblk and blkid aren't available there? On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright wrote: >Like this? > > └─sda6 8:60 406.2G 0 part >

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
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

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
I do not see an answer to my questions. > On Jan 1, 2024, at 11:52, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > > On 1 Jan 2024 11:46 +0100, from rich...@rosner-online.de (Richard Rosner): >> I'm not sure what you meant with "rescue mode", but I've reinstalled >> grub anyways. The log of

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 1 Jan 2024 11:46 +0100, from rich...@rosner-online.de (Richard Rosner): > I'm not sure what you meant with "rescue mode", but I've reinstalled > grub anyways. The log of it doesn't look good though. Quite a bunch > of errors. The result also is the same. Please review the posts in the thread

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
I'm not sure what you meant with "rescue mode", but I've reinstalled grub anyways. The log of it doesn't look good though. Quite a bunch of errors. The result also is the same. https://pastes.io/nvmlsxghlm > On Jan 1, 2024, at 11:03, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > > On 1

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 29 Dec 2023 23:29 +0100, from rich...@rosner-online.de (Richard Rosner): > For a fraction of a second it shows something about slot 0 open, that's it. Well, that means that GRUB at least succeeds in opening the LUKS container. That's good; it means that we can rule out that part of the chain

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Richard Rosner
As far as I can tell, /boot and /boot/grub are the same filesystem. After all, I didn't really do anything custom. Just your default LUKS installation with the boot efi stuff on sda1/sdb1/whatever, LUKS on 2 and LUKS encrypted swap on 3. I did make a video. Nothing that's not showing up

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 29 Dec 2023 18:56 +0100, from rich...@rosner-online.de (Richard Rosner): > Hey, I have quite the strange issue. After updating a bunch of > packages today [1], mostly related to systemd, gstreamer and udev, > and restarting my device, it no longer boots. I have an encrypted > system. So I do

Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Richard Rosner
Hey, I have quite the strange issue. After updating a bunch of packages today [1], mostly related to systemd, gstreamer and udev, and restarting my device, it no longer boots. I have an encrypted system. So I do get asked for my decryption password as usual, but a few seconds later, instead of