Hello all, I am spending now hours for hours with a problem, which I can not get fixed.
It would be nice, if someone has a clue. The problem I have is very special. My environment: I have debian on my first harddrive, with /usr and /var on an enrypted filesystem. There are the correct entries in /etc/fstab and /etc/cryptab. A second installation (kali-linux, which is also debian based) is installed on the second harddrive (unencrypted). The bootloader grub2 is installed on the first harddrive in MBR. The problem: I can start kali-linux and it is booting well. In Kali-Linux I can do grub- install and update-grub, working well. When I want to start debian, it ist starting, but when I have to enter the password, the keyboard is not working and frozen. However, I did a trick: I put the content of /usr and /var to two unencrypted partitions (/dev/sdb5 and /dev/sdb6), got those entries into /etc/fstab and I could start debian again. Then I opened the encrypted partitions, and remounted /dev/mapper/usr and /dev/mapper/var to /usr and /var. Now the system was in a state, where it should normally be! After this, I did a grub-install and update-grub again, which showed no errors and also built a new initramfs. No errors again. But, after next boot it showed, NOTHING hat changed. Although the root- partition was mounted (which is /dev/sda6) , it mourned, /dev/sda6 apeared not in /etc/mtab. And the keyboard hanged again. I am searching now for several days for a solution. Where does grub read from??? Is there any trick, to forcely override all grub related things, or do I think completely wrong and the combination of debian on one disk and kali on the second drive will never work? I already had it running, but at the time the partitions /usr and /var were unencrypted. Sorry, I do not give up easy, but at the moment I do not know, what to do next. Thank you very much for any help!!! Best regards Hans
