I am having a bear of a time getting Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 21.04 running on a Lenovo Yoga 9i. I cannot get it to boot fully when I use full disk encryption. I have gotten it to install and run without encryption in legacy mode. I would prefer UEFI over legacy, but I absolutely must have encryption as this is a business laptop. I'm a long time linux user, but this is the worst time I've ever had getting linux on one.
Here are some notes on what I've tried and the settings involved:
UEFI on, Secure Boot on, Intel SGX on = won't even boot USB installer (hangs with black screen just after boot selection for try ubuntu or safe mode, even with all the kernel options I have found)
UEFI on, Secure Boot off, Intel SGX on = won't even boot USB installer (hangs with black screen just after boot selection for try ubuntu or safe mode, even with all the kernel options I have found)
UEFI on, Secure Boot off, Intel SGX off, no drive encryption = boots USB media and installs, final installation boots and runs fine although useless for me without encryption
UEFI on, Secure Boot off, Intel SGX off, full disk encryption = boots USB media and installs, final installation prompts for password then pauses a long time and drops to busybox prompt with no errors displayed
Legacy mode on, Boot Legacy first, no drive encryption = boots USB media and installs, final installation boots and runs fine although useless for me without encryption
Legacy mode on, Boot Legacy first, no drive encryption = boots USB media and installs, final installation prompts for password then pauses a long time and drops to busybox prompt with an error about Volume Group "luks" not found.
The closest article I have found to try to manually fix the encrypted disk error is this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/5677...t-doesnt-exist
The post by lumbric about halfway down seemed to be the most relevant but the cryptab created by the install lists the drive by UUID in the format luks-<UUID> UUID=<UUID>. I can run the command below and it goes through with no errors but the vgscans don't seem to be working properly.
sudo crypsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 luks-<UUID>
All of the mounts work, but the DNS commands don't seem to get DNS working in chroot. In hopes that I actually was not missing the packages I went ahead and tried the update-initramfs command and it worked and it got me further. But it now drops me to a busybox prompt with the error Volume Group "luks" not found.
On the outside possibility that cryptab was not parsing the luks-<UUID> correctly, I just shortened it to luksmain with no dash and then went through the whole process a 2nd time also using luks main in the /dev/mapper command. On the next boot attempt, I got exactly the same error Volume Group "luks" not found.
I'm stuck. I can't get this thing to boot with full disk encryption on it and need some help... I have been installing and trying this thing with every option under the sun for 10+ hours today.
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