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Re: Anyone having troubles with GRUB full disk decryption sometimes not


From: Christopher Lemmer Webber
Subject: Re: Anyone having troubles with GRUB full disk decryption sometimes not decrypting?
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:21:54 -0400
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Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello,
>
> Christopher Lemmer Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> The problem I have been having though, and it seems to be with increased
>> frequency, is that it frequently seems to freeze before booting.
>>
>> I can type in my passphrase, after about 10 seconds of waiting it will
>> say "Slot 0 unlocked."  Usually if things are ok, it goes to the Grub
>> menu screen and then it will boot from there... if I make it past the
>> Grub menu, everything is (mostly) fine.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have to sometimes try up to 30 times before it will
>> boot, because it either freezes at:
>>  - right after "Slot 0 unlocked"
>>  - right after the menu selection on the Grub menu is made, before
>>    booting into the OS proper.
>
> Woow.  FWIW I’ve never experienced that on my UEFI/x86_64 laptop in the
> last couple of years.
>
> If you do find out more, I’d be curious to learn what it was!
>
> Ludo’.

My suspicion is something hard drive related.  (FWIW this isn't the
original hard drive that came with the laptop, I upgraded it.)

I'll try replacing that and see if I get better results... otherwise I
guess I'll hand it back into repairs.



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