[SOLVED] Troubleshoot issue

Freaksta · 07-18-2023, 01:57 PM

Hello!

I recently installed Slackware 15 on a laptop with NVME drive and LUKS following the guide in the README_CRYPT.txt file

When I boot, the following error is presented and I am dumped into a prompt (see attached image):

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1&d=1689706569

I can then mount my system by unlocking the LUKS encrypted partition

Code:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 luksRoot

type in the password

mount the partition

Code:

mount /dev/cryptvg/root /mnt

and then execute return command

Code:

return

and the system boots nicely.

How do I get elilo to prompt me for the password without these steps?

I have a vfat partition mounted to /boot/efi/ on /dev/nvme0n1p1 which contains my EFI config, vmlinuz kernel, and initrd.gz file.

colorpurple21859 · 07-18-2023, 02:19 PM

It looks like you are attempting to unlock the efi partition instead of root partition. Either the initrd wasn't generated correctly or something wrong in the elilo.config file.

Freaksta · 07-18-2023, 02:45 PM

Quite right.

I reran it from the mounted volume and moved the initrd.gz file to /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware and the issue is resolved.

Thanks!