On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 01:02:04PM +0000, Anon Loli wrote: > Hello list > So I was trying to resolve the problem that I just submitted with the > Installer, and I was putting a fresh install75 on my USB, the problem is that > last DD/flash my USB was on sd2, and in meanwhile I attached my VERY IMPORTANT > external drive to my computer which became sd2 with crypto volume attached as > sd3, so it was mounted.
There is a difference between the crypto volume being _attached_ and a partition on it being _mounted_. In your case the crypto volume contained within sd2 was attached as sd3. But quite possibly none of the partitions on sd3 was mounted on /mnt. Now you have overwritten the beginning of sd2, which is where the encryption keys are stored. But since it was hopefully already attached a copy of these keys will be in RAM, despite the fact that you have trashed the on-disk copy. So don't reset the machine now, because that copy would be lost. What happens if you do: # mount -oro /dev/sd3X /mnt Replacing X with the partition that you actually had on the external disk, (probably a or d). Are you able to see anything that was on the disk? If so, let us know and don't do anything else that might crash the machine.
