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#27069
LUKS partition ruined by guix init
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Reported by: someone <at> selfhosted.xyz
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 16:27:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
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Message #16 received at 27069-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:
> Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> someone <at> selfhosted.xyz writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have several times over tried to install to a LUKS-partition with
>>> btrfs and failed but last time I almost had success. guix init command
>>> complained that the bios_grub flag wasn't set after many hours of
>>> compiling packages and therefore didn't install grub at first. I
>>> checked the partition with "cryptsetup luksUUID /dev/sda1" before
>>> rerunning guix init and it gives me the luksUUID so the partition
>>> seemed intact up to that point. However, after setting the bios_grub
>>> flag and rerunning guix init, the installation is successful but
>>> afterwards the cryptsetup luksUUID command says that the partition is
>>> not a valid luks device, so it seems like the GRUB installation part
>>> is what ruins the partition.
>>
>> What is your partition layout? The "bios_grub" partition must be a
>> separate (typically tiny) partition with no other data on it.
>
> FWIW, my current development system is GuixSD running with a
> LUKS-encrypted Btrfs root partition with GUID partition table.
> I don't remember encountering any difficulties during the install.
Interesting. Did you reserve some sectors before the first partition? Or
do you have the root partition marked as "bios_grub", which is what
seemingly wiped the LUKS headers here?
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