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blendOS•10mo ago•
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joshmock

Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable

I have a disk with two partitions: boot, and a LUKS-encrypted partition for the rest. The LUKS device when unlocked contains a few LVM logical volumes: root, home and swap.

I ran the BlendOS installer, then mounted root at
/mnt
/mnt
and boot at
/mnt/boot
/mnt/boot
. Then in the manual partition menu I set each respective partition to System and Boot, then ran the installer. Afterward, I updated
/mnt/etc/fstab
/mnt/etc/fstab
and
/mnt/etc/crypttab
/mnt/etc/crypttab
according to my disk layout. I updated mkinitcpio, modprobe and GRUB configs to ensure the disk would be unlocked at boot, then ran
arch-chroot
arch-chroot
to ensure those settings were applied to the boot partition.

After completion, I unmounted, unplugged my live USB and rebooted, and the boot process would not recognize the boot partition as bootable.

I booted into a rescue USB and used arch-chroot to poke around. I verified that fstab and crypttab were correct. I tried mounting the boot partition to
/boot/efi
/boot/efi
and rerunning mkinitcpio and grub-install, but it still didn't boot.

The only hint I am getting via Discord search is that Cannot install to lvm partitions and then copied it to their LVM logical volume afterward. I haven't tried that, but in this case it seems to be the unencrypted fat32 boot partition that isn't playing nice.

Any thoughts or ideas welcome.
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