On Fri 21 Aug 2015 at 18:21:47 +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > I am rather despaired as I cannot boot into my debian system again. > > What happened? On my first harddrive I have debian/testing with /usr and /var > encrypted. > > Then I installed kali-linux on my second harddrive into one partition. > > During this installation my kali-installation overwrote my existing grub2 > configurations of the first harddrive and this let me no more boot into the > debian system. > > I checked and I found out, after the decrypt of /usr the system hangs at the > message /scripts/local-premount. > > IMO the kernel or whatever does not find the correct partitions, so that they > can be opened and mounted.
I know nothing about encrypted partitions and how you have them set up. > If I start kali-linux, it is starting, but neither grub-install nor update- > grub let detect the debian system. However, the debian installation is seen, > but it will not boot due to the wrong paths. > > I am now working for hours on it, but find no way to get rid of the wrong > entries. From the kali system I could edit the debian partitions, if needed. > > The debian partitions were not changed, except maybe thos with grub2 involved. > > I would be happy if someone could help me. Of course I tried rescue mode with > the debian installation disks, unfortunately it is not possible to open the > encrypted partitions due to missing necessary options or files in the rescue > system. > > Thank you very much for any help, I am rather despaired what I can still do. When the kali GRUB menu comes up press "c". "ls" gives you which partitions GRUB has found. "ls -l" will give you more information on each partition. Suppose you find out or know Debian is on (hd0,msdos1). then: set root=(hd0,msdos1) linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 initrd /initrd.img boot All commands and file names auto-complete. (Press TAB).
