Re: Question about decryption prompts

[Sotir Danailov]

> So what is your question then? Your grub.cfg tries to unlock /.

My question is, when it tries to unlock /, why does it accept an
invalid password and just continue to the menu?

On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 5:56 AM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01.04.2024 23:48, Sotir Danailov wrote:
> >> missing file is simply ignored
> >
> > What do you mean by "missing file"?
> >
> >> grub cannot ignore missing /boot
> >
> > /boot is fine and I don't need it to be ignored of course. I just
> > wanted to know, why would it prompt for a second password, if the
> > input doesn't matter for / (root)? Like I said, if I just press enter
> > it continues to the menu directly, I haven't entered anything in that
> > prompt.
> >
> > In grub.cfg I have a couple of cryptomount commands and all of them
> > use the proper uuid for /boot and / (root).
>
> So what is your question then? Your grub.cfg tries to unlock /.
>
> > I don't see any invalid
> > parameters. My PC boots fine, I'm only asking about the purpose of
> > this second prompt and whether it's a mistake.
>