On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:04:56PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > I use LUKS swap (random key) and root (passphrase). I think it's the piece > of the boot chain that gives me the LUKS prompt for root (before the GRUB > menu). You get that prompt *before* GRUB? I use LUKS everywhere and only get it after, because the prompt is (normally) issued from my initrd. (although I historically put /boot outside of the encryption. Maybe this is some newer scheme I am not familiar with). > So, the moral of the story appears to be: > > When taking an image of a Debian system drive, be sure to copy the > blocks between the partition table and the first partition, as there > may be boot loader code there. I'd always put a step 0) in there: is imaging what you want to do? Consider a file-level backup with rsync (etc etc, as discussed elsewhere in this thread) > This document is dated and doesn't cover LUKS, but does indicate that blocks > 1-62 were used for "GRUB stage 1.5": > > http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/disk/ Yes, that was what I thought. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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