error using cryptsetup during install

Leviathan42 · 05-09-2022, 09:37 AM

Hey guys

I have to go through the agony of reinstalling my distro (Manjaro). As I've got a laptop, I want my distro to be fully encrypted. So I chose the encryption option in the installer. Quite soon after start, i get this error:

Code:

Create a new partition (238,48 GiB, luks) on ‘/dev/md126’


Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/md126’


Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/md126

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

Oh and just for completeness, when I won't choose to encrypt option, but all other options stay the same, I get a similar error.

Code:

Create a new partition (238,48 GiB, ext4) on ‘/dev/md126’


Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/md126’


Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/md126

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

ondoho · 05-11-2022, 12:29 AM

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https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ct-4175711850/

computersavvy · 05-12-2022, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leviathan42

Hey guys

I have to go through the agony of reinstalling my distro (Manjaro). As I've got a laptop, I want my distro to be fully encrypted. So I chose the encryption option in the installer. Quite soon after start, i get this error:

Code:

Create a new partition (238,48 GiB, luks) on ‘/dev/md126’


Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/md126’


Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/md126

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

Oh and just for completeness, when I won't choose to encrypt option, but all other options stay the same, I get a similar error.

Code:

Create a new partition (238,48 GiB, ext4) on ‘/dev/md126’


Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/md126’


Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/md126

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/md126’.

The --append option tells it to use an existing partition table, which probably does not yet exist, so will fail
--force disables consistency checking

You did not tell it the type of partition table to create, dos, gpt, etc.
The options --list and --verify could show you info about an existing partition table.

The man page for sfdisk gives me a lot of info on how it works and is used.