Re: boot error: zfs + luks + grub

[Andrei Borzenkov]

Your top posting makes it more difficult to reply.


12.07.2016 06:17, James пишет:
> As an aside, if I manually attempt to unlock one of the ahciX devices it
> fails with this error:
> 
> grub rescue>
> grub rescue> cryptomount ahci5
> alloc magic is broken at 0x3ff8e30: 5016608
> Aborted. Press any key to exit.FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE
> 

"alloc magic is broken" is always bug in grub. If you are interested
enough, you could try current git master if this is still present, then
we could attempt to debug it.

> I suspect this is because I no longer have a separate boot partition and
> /boot lives in my root ZFS pool. I did, however, think that configuration
> this was supported. Am I mistaken?
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:07 PM, James <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Andrei -- I sincerely appreciate all of your help.
>>
>> I attempted to install grub with the --disk-module=native flag. Here's
>> the output:
>>
>> error: no device connected.
>> error: no device connected.
>> error: no device connected.

Those messages come from grub pata driver. I would expect AHCI, not
PATA, but well, those drivers were meant for specific environment, and
are not well tested in general. Again, testing current git master would
be interesting.

Otherwise as I already told you - ask VirtualBox guys why their BIOS
presents only 4 devices.

>> error: variable 'prefix' isn't set.
>> error: PATA passthrough failed.
>> error: no such cryptodisk found.
>> Entering rescue mode...
>> grub rescue> ls
>> (ahci5) (ahci4) (ahci3) (ahci2) (ahci1) (ahci0) (ata2) (proc)
>>
>> It seems that grub detects all of the disks when I use the
>> --disk-module=native flag, but it does not seem to notice that these
>> disks are encrypted.
>>
>> I've slightly modified my partition tables to simplify the process, so the
>> output from BIS script: http://pastebin.com/raw/gVF6Fep2
>>
>> Hopefully I'm missing something completely obvious.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 11.07.2016 19:01, James пишет:
>>>> Andrei,
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks - this does indeed appear to be the problem.
>>>>
>>>> grub rescue> ls
>>>> (hd0) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) (hd1) (hd1,msdos2) (hd1,msdos1) (hd2)
>>>> (hd2,msdos2) (hd2,msdos1) (hd3) (hd3,msdos2) (hd3,msdos1) (crypto3)
>>>> (crypto2) (crypto1) (crypto0) (proc)
>>>>
>>>> I've attached the dmesg output here: http://pastebin.com/raw/GRVEdVYS
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on why GRUB doesn't see all of the disks?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Because BIOS does not show them. GRUB is using BIOS services by default
>>> to access devices so it can see only what BIOS shows. You are better off
>>> asking this question on VirtualBox support list.
>>>
>>> You could try to install GRUB using "grub-install --disk-module=native
>>> ...". This will use AHCI driver instead of asking BIOS. It may work,
>>> although there were reports that VirtualBox crashes in this case.
>>>
>>
>>
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