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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
but also, now I'm curious if that CommonArch project could be extended to bootstrap and manage an immutable Arch install rather than just building ISOs
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
I paused on it for now and went back to my vanilla Arch setup
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
those actions seem to be in the akshara code that cleans up after a failure has already happened, so i don't think that's the actual error it's failing on.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
the final two errors it spits out are
umount: /.new_rootfs/: not mounted.
and
rmdir: failed to remove '/.new_rootfs': Directory not empty
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
this has been super helpful. I'm getting all the way to the initial akshara update steps. now that update fails on error every time, but it's never clear what the error actually is. I piped stdout and stderr to files so I could skim through them and, from what I can see, random errors may be happening (temporary network issues, or a file it can't modify for some reason) but akshara keeps running anyway, as far as it can go, rather than breaking on the first error. it actually gets all the way to checksumming .new_rootfs, and succeeds at that, but it still exits in a failing state and never switches over to the new root.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
is there a way to install Blend without using a GUI installer?
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
for context, after giving up I wiped the root partition and installed vanilla Arch on it manually (no archinstall) in about 15 minutes and got it to boot all the way to login with very few hiccups
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
I have done several combinations of things at this point with no luck, including wiping and reinstalling on the same LVM setup. modified all the correct kernel, grub, disk configs, and no luck.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
is that the distro template blend switched to for v4?
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
is there a public roadmap for watching v5 progress?
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
EndeavourOS uses it to great effect
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
love Calamares
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
but it's not as straightforward as e.g. ext4 directly on the drive
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
yeah, I get you. it's a nice solution for creating logical partitions inside a LUKS encrypted partition.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
it doesn't even show the grub menu. the BIOS boot menu just comes back up.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
after arch-chrooting and rerunning grub-mkconfig and grub-install with different args, I got a GRUB boot option to show up in the boot menu, but it also does not work and just loops back to the boot menu.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
with nothing else plugged in, the NVMe disk was the only boot option and it wouldn't let me add others.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
it's got amd and intel ucode images, as well as initramfs images for linux-zen and linux-zen-fallback. also an EFI dir, a grub dir, and a vmlinuz-linux-zen file
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
I appreciate the response either way. I figured, even if there's no official fix for this right now, documenting the symptoms would at least give someone else a searchable breadcrumb trail if they run into the same thing.
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BblendOS
Created by joshmock on 5/6/2025 in #🆘┃support
Installing on LVM inside LUKS is unbootable
yes, parted -l shows that partition 1 is a fat32 EFI system partition with boot and esp flags
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