Recently an upgrade on my notebook went bad and broke something. I wasn’t sure what went wrong but since I had just one system at that time, I had to figure out how to fix it with the help of my phone. Basically what I did is install EtchDroid to be able to download an iso and flash it to a …
I have been using LVM on top of LUKS for more than 2 years without problems. However since I haven’t had the chance to troubleshoot these technologies in the past I was quite concerned of what would happen when I would have problems. Today my main computer didn’t boot up and I had to fix it manually. This post shows the steps I performed to recover my system. I use Arch Linux and I prepared a repository with my custom install method based on archinstaller.
How to manually boot/recover a system with LUKS and LVM I have been using LVM on top of LUKS for more than 2 years without problems. However since I haven’t had the chance to troubleshoot these technologies in the past I was quite concerned of what would happen when I would have problems. Today my main computer didn’t boot up and I had to fix it manually. This post shows the steps I performed to recover my system.