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Hello, Is it used the same pass-phrase for all encrypted partitions ? Yes. it's a 29 character passphrase, I only want to remember one. :) Can you report a full copy of the system log ? Are there particular strings you're interested in? I'm not crazy about posting the fully log unless I absolutely ...

Did you happen to remember the path and filename? I couldn't find it and never got back here. I just installed I just installed bookworm on one of my laptops and was VERY careful to set encryption on all 3 drives (root, swap, home) to a passphrase (I used the same passphrase for all three in case th...

I did have to buy a new battery this spring, though it was pretty much dead last year, always had to have the laptop plugged in if I was using if for more than 20 min or so. Took a chance on an aftermarket GHU brand, X001CAV4XF. Tried to use the one from my T420, but it came up saying the battery wa...

I bought a used ThinkPad T430 2342-6QU last September and haven't had any issues with Wheezy. It installed fine and everything worked. I will agree about the Ctrl key, I'm always messing up copy and paste. The only issue I've had is watching DVD's on it (still haven't gotten it flawless like my des...

I've been using luks with a passphrase for years, but sometime in the past months, since installing bullseye, it started using a keyfile for my home partition. I get prompted for the passphrases for /, and swap, but not home. First, I have no idea how this happened, or how it's even possible. But ma...

Well, I spoke too soon, sort of.
I can start booting the OS, get past the passphrases for the drives but it hangs at
"Starting Forward Password Requests to Wall..."
Before the passphrase for /home

Need to research that. I'll start a new thread if I don't get anywhere.

p.H wrote: ↑2021-10-12 12:18 1) Wipe the GPT signature in sector 1.

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wipefs -o 0x200 /dev/sdc

2) Install GRUB on the USB drive.

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mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt /dev/sdc
umount /mnt

That did the trick! Thanks for bearing with me.

The MBR contains an ISOLinux boot sector. I am surprised that bootinfoscript did not identify it, maybe the version is too old (2012). Buster and Bullseye have a newer version. I too suspect it remains enough of the RHEL installer on the USB drive to boot ISOLinux. Anyway GRUB is not installed on t...

According to the output of the command: hd -n 512 /dev/sdc, if /dev/sdc is the usb, then it has one partition which is bootable: 1b0 ... 80 ... with isolinux booting. Since RHEL is being booted, evidently there is some RHEL code still on the usb. Where it is, is unclear. One way of testing whether ...

I thought bootinfoscript would dump the contentns of unknown boot sectors. You can do it yourself : hd -n 512 /dev/sdc hd -n 512 /dev/sdc1 Here you go SDC 00000000 33 ed 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 |3...............| 00000010 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 |.............

Maybe the USB installer was not created properly. Debian is more particular about the method used to write it because of being an iso hybrid image. From a Linux system, first detect the device to install to: lsblk Then write to the identified device: cp debian-image-whatever.iso /dev/sdX ; sync Rep...

Yes, but it may destroy all evidence and any chance to understand what happened. Also make sure the partition UUID matches /etc/fstab. I didn't want to do that so while waiting for your feedback I tried it with a different thumb drive, but messed something up so will need to try again. I definitely...

Do you mind posting the full report, or at least all information it contains about the USB drive and its partitions /dev/sdc* ? Not at all [/quote]Really ? "Kernel panic" means that it could at least load and boot a kernel image.[/quote]Yeah Kernel panic - not synciing: VFS: Unable to mou...

When it comes up it's loading the REHL installer. You could check the mbr on the usb if it's there. odel: SanDisk Ultra Fit (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 15.6GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 15.6GB 15.6GB p...

Install boot-info-script, run bootinfoscript with the USB drive connected and examine the report. Well, this is bothersome. => No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc. Or is that normal? But there's nothing that I can see to indicate anything to do with REHL is still on the thumb d...

Background: In July I made USB (Sandisk Ultra Fit) install media for REHL and installed the OS on a drive I had lying around. Yesterday I removed that hard drive, installed a brand new drive and installed Bullseye to encrypted disks using the same USB for the boot media. During the install I deleted...

I did a search for stoken and came up with zero references.
Anyway, if you are, are you aware of a site that lets you test an RSA SecureID compliant token generator?

Regards,
Tom

Yup, no change in error messages and dmesg still reports:

[ 6895.593227] vboxdrv: disagrees about version of symbol cpu_tlbstate
[ 6895.593230] vboxdrv: Unknown symbol cpu_tlbstate (err -22)

You can have linux-image packages installed without their matching headers, which means you still can't build VBox modules. EZ way to set up module build environment: Install module-assistant . Run with sudo or as root in the terminal: m-a prepare Done. Done, but still getting the same error when t...

4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u2 (2019-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux VirtualBox - Version 6.0.8 r130520 (Qt5.7.1) Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.0.8-130520.vbox-extpack Virtualbox is from cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian st...