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stolichniaskitnik

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Registered: 2017-09-29

Posts: 34

[SOLVED]: Installing on 2 HDD fails

Hi! I'm new to this forum and to Arch as well. I installed Arch on vm a couple of weeks ago and started playing with it and I found it enjoyable. Then I decided to change my current OS with it but before  I do that I wanted to try installing it inside virtualbox with a similiar partition scheme like the one I will use when I reinstall. So in reality my host has a 240GB SSD with /, /boot, /var, /home partitions and my 1TB HDD has swap partition and free space that i mount to /media/somedir and then symlink a bunch of folders to /home/username/. So the setup I did on the vm was 60GB /dev/sda (/, /boot, /var, /home) and 40GB /dev/sdb (swap and free space) so it looks pretty much like my host setup. Now the problem comes with the fact I would like to encrypt both my drives (except for /boot I dont have a whole lotta knowledge on encrypting /boot but I dont think it is necessary) and use LVM. After partitioning encrypting and creating lvm my setup looks something like this:

sda
    sda1    1GB    /boot
    sda2    60GB
        lvmVolume    60GB
            lvmVolume-root    20GB
            lvmVolume-var    12GB
            lvmVolume-home    27GB
sdb
    lvmVolume2    40GB
        lvmVolume-swap    6GB
        lvmVolume-freespace    34GB

So after Im satisfied with my disks I format them (ext2 for /boot and ext4 for everything else) make needed directories and mount them, I mkswap then swapon And I instal base and base-devel. after generating my filesystem table I eventually install grub-bios. I also edited /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and made HOOKS= look like this:
http://paste.debian.net/988392/
the other file I did edit was /etc/default/grub and made GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= look like this:
http://paste.debian.net/988391/

So now when I reboot my system it asks for /dev/sda2 passphrase I enter it and it never asks for /dev/sdb passphrase and throws Failed dependency for swap and so on:
https://s26.postimg.org/flvuyjo5l/failedboot.png

So im pretty sure I messed up something somewhere or missed idk.. I would appreciate any help regarding my issue. Here's my /etc/fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
# /dev/mapper/volume-root
UUID=4b448dbd-d240-49d5-bc57-255be24bc481	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

# /dev/sda1
UUID=b08014a1-7f81-41fa-a011-5b34c2aa3a8d	/boot     	ext2      	rw,relatime,block_validity,barrier,user_xattr,acl	0 2

# /dev/mapper/volume-var
UUID=d324d023-ca46-4d5e-a75d-381901a4f03f	/var      	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# /dev/mapper/volume-home
UUID=691c2a45-5161-411a-aa08-32dd6cc78d3f	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# /dev/mapper/volume2-freee
UUID=d7d8cf02-fab1-4e6d-972f-6ab625cb7084	/media/hdd	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# /dev/mapper/volume2-swap
UUID=0f4e57d9-e3cc-493d-89ac-984ea47a5837	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

and here's my /etc/crypttab:

# crypttab: mappings for encrypted partitions
#
# Each mapped device will be created in /dev/mapper, so your /etc/fstab
# should use the /dev/mapper/<name> paths for encrypted devices.
#
# The Arch specific syntax has been deprecated, see crypttab(5) for the
# new supported syntax.
#
# NOTE: Do not list your root (/) partition here, it must be set up
#       beforehand by the initramfs (/etc/mkinitcpio.conf).

# <name>       <device>                                     <password>              <options>
# home         UUID=b8ad5c18-f445-495d-9095-c9ec4f9d2f37    /etc/mypassword1
# data1        /dev/sda3                                    /etc/mypassword2
# data2        /dev/sda5                                    /etc/cryptfs.key
# swap         /dev/sdx4                                    /dev/urandom            swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256
# vol          /dev/sdb7                                    none

Well thats my issue, again all help will be appreciated! (=
Cheers!

EDIT: I changed the pictures to code except the screenshot which shows the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

SOLUTION: I simply made another scheme. on my filesystem table I don't have any partitions that are encrypted and I have two LUKS partitions that I manually unlock and mount whenever I need to use them.

Last edited by stolichniaskitnik (2018-02-16 10:16:20)

eddilein

Member

From: Germany / Bavaria

Registered: 2008-08-06

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED]: Installing on 2 HDD fails

At very first sight, It seems to be a swap problem...

Give me the time to rethink it, however...

Nice WE!

Edit: (Typo and)

I guess, if only the recognition of 1 (one) drive fails, under Virtualbox, it would bring you this message up...

Last edited by eddilein (2017-09-29 16:16:59)

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [SOLVED]: Installing on 2 HDD fails

Welcome to the forums, stolichniaskitnik.

Please fix the size of your images: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code