Hey all, I'm a Linux newbie so please forgive any glaring ignorance.
I installed Kali 1.0.6 9 (GNOME 64) on my laptop from a live USB.
The laptop drive is 320GB, and is partitioned as follows:
1GB unencrypted MBR partition
10GB encrypted swap
40GB encrypted /
269GB encrypted /home
On power-on, nothing happens after the POST. Just a blinking cursor.
I booted into my live USB and ran blkid to see if the volumes were recognized:
Code:
/dev/sda1: UUID="80AC-C1CA" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="ID" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="ID" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="ID" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"
/dev/sdb7: UUID="ID" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
sda1 is my live USB
sdb1 is my mbr
sdb5 is my swap
sdb6 is my /
sdb7 is my /home
I had a similar problem on a previous encrypted single-volume install. the solution if found for that follows:
Code:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda1_crypt
(enter password)
lvm vgchange -ay
exit
The vgchange command results in the following error:
Code:
No volume groups found
I have tried creating a new volume group, but that fails as well.
I have used gparted to check the mbr, which it shows as fine, but I can't seem to figure this out. I'm really trying to avoid re-installing as the encryption was a 20-hour process, so any help would be appreciated. Please let me know if you need further information.