07.12.2016 21:24, Hamid Nassiby пишет: > Hi > > , > > I am trying to install grub (v. 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1) on a partitionless > 4TB HDD which is fully encrypted by luks. Over the luks, I have 3 logical
You cannot boot from disk if it is fully encrypted. You need at least unencrypted space where bootloader is stored. Please show "fdisk -l" and blkid output and explain what is what. > volumes (LVM2), one is > for > swap, > second for > > / > and the last one > for / > home. I have a Debian Jessie 8.6 installed on the > setup (in fact I moved an already existing installation to this new 4TB > HDD). I am able to boot into the installed system via a grub which is > installed on another HDD (sda which has the same version of grub and the > same version of Debian). > > But I've not been able to install grub on this drive (which is /dev/sdb in > my setup). > I get the following lines: > > root@debian:/# grub-install --force /dev/sdb >>> Installing for i386-pc platform. >>> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 7 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 8 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 1920: >>> grub-install >>> grub-install: error: unable to identify a filesystem in >>> hostdisk//dev/sdb; safety check can't be performed. >>> >> > If I try with -s flag: > > root@debian:/# grub-install -s /dev/sdb >>> Installing for i386-pc platform. >>> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 4 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 7 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >>> grub-install >>> File descriptor 8 (/) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 4091: >>> grub-install >>> grub-install: warning: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk >>> or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. >>> grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for >>> RAID and LVM install. >>> >> >> > I have put "GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y" in "/etc/default/grub" and my > grub.cfg entry is the same as the one on /dev/sda (which already has grub > installed on it. sda is a partitioned drive non-encrypted and non-lvm). > > Any idea would be much appreciated, > Thanks in advance, > Hamid > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
