Unable to dual-boot trisquel and guix, no grub menu
leo@capy:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 111,8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 953M 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:2 0 18,6G 0 part │ └─sda2_crypt 253:0 0 18,6G 0 crypt / ├─sda3 8:3 0 10M 0 part ├─sda4 8:4 0 19,5G 0 part └─sda5 8:5 0 72,7G 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom leo@capy:~$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. Installation finished. No error reported. leo@capy:~$ sudo update-grub Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub' Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg' Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-135-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-135-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-113-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-113-generic done
Hello, I have a 120GB SSD on a lenovo T400 with default bios. First I have made a clean install of trisquel-mini 10.0.1 with encryption on /dev/sda2 using the graphical interface and a /boot partition on /dev/sda1, it works normally. Then I have created a bios_grub partition using gparted and
sudo parted /dev/sda set 3 bios_grub on
and installed the latest guix version from here on /dev/sda4 without encryption, it also works.
I have got some trouble booting trisquel again, since it boots guix directly, but by using the trisquel-mini live dvd I have managed to do so
su cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 trisquel open partion using pcmanfm mount -o bind /proc /media/trisquel/<UUID>/proc mount -o bind /dev /media/trisquel/<UUID>/dev mount -o bind /sys /media/trisquel/<UUID>/sys chroot /media/trisquel/<UUID> /bin/bash mount /dev/sda1 /boot grub-install /dev/sda update-grub
Now only trisquel boots, no grub menu. I have repeated the update-grub on the installed trisquel, but with no success. What is wrong? It only prompts the password box and enters trisquel.
My plan is to dual-boot trisquel and a temporary distro, both encrypted and also a data partition, also encrypted. Is there a better way to achieve this?
So, after several tries I successfully dual-booted trisquel-mini 10.0.1 and pureos 10 kde.
- trisquel-mini luks2 encrypted
- pureos not encrypted
- data partition encrypted
It works fine, it boots into the grub menu containing trisquel and pureos, for trisquel it asks for the partition passphrase and for pureos it just prompts the login.
This solution definitely has more steps than needed, but it worked. It mainly follows this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1134998/booting-19-04-from-luks-system-drive
- Install trisquel by creating /boot and luks2 encrypted partitions using the manual partition menu
- Inside trisquel, create a bios_grub partition using gparted and parted:
sudo parted /dev/sda set 3 bios_grub on - Install pureos 10, asking not to install a boot-loader, manual partition menu
- Inside pureos enter chroot and update grub:
1. sudo su
2. cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 sda2_crypt
3. mount /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt /mnt
4. mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
5. mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
6. mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
7. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
8. chroot /mnt
9. fdisk -l
10. blkid
11. nano /etc/fstab # changing the partition name and UUID if necessary
12. nano /etc/crypttab # changing the partition name and UUID if necessary
13. nano /etc/default/grub # editing this line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.luks.name=<UUID>=cryptroot root=/dev/mapper/sda2_crypt"
14. grub-install /dev/sda
15. update-grub
16. rebootI would edit the first post, but it seems that I can't do that.