On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 08:37:55AM +0000, Thomasheidler via coreboot wrote: > I have GRUB2 as a payload in coreboot and I am trying to have it load > Trisquel 7.0 Live (Test Trisquel without installing) from an encrypted LUKS > partition on a USB flash drive. I am able to decrypt the LUKS container and > GRUB finds the Trisquel ISOLINUX menu, but fails to load the OS. When I try > to manually boot it with commands (linux, initrd, boot) it starts loading the > kernel, but then halts when it detects the USB flash drive and drops into > BusyBox. Live setups do not support encrypted root file systems, that's why Trisquel fails here and you're dropping to the initramfs's rescue shell.
> Does anybody know how to overcome this problem and properly boot Trisquel in > live mode from an encrypted LUKS partition in GRUB? Encrypted disks are decrypted twice during boot: First GRUB2 needs to read the kernel image (and initramfs), second the kernel reads / (and all other required file systems). These stages are completely separate, there's no way of passing state between bootloader and kernel. Put your live system on a USB stick as usual or install it properly using disk encryption, that's all you got. -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
