Grub doesn‘t recognize my encrypted root partition Or just doesn‘t boot it

[junior elbow]

When I exited chroot and tried to reboot my system it gives my a Grub tty instead of showing me archlinux

*the packages I installed with pacstrap were: base, base-devel, linux-firmware, linux-hardened, nano, neofetch, grub, efibootmgr

incase that might be helpful

[UNSOLVED]Grub doesn‘t recognize my encrypted root partition Or just doesn‘t boot it

[near heath]

@junior elbow don't put unsolved as a title

[junior elbow]

sorry

Grub doesn‘t recognize my encrypted root partition Or just doesn‘t boot it

[near heath]

@junior elbow go back into the chroot please

[junior elbow]

i cant it only shows me a grub tty

[near heath]

boot into the usb

[junior elbow]

damn i need to mount everything new again and all of that

it didnt save anything

[junior elbow]

im in a vm right now trying to test stuff out before i do it on my ssd

[junior elbow]

i just did everything again and now im in chroot before grub install

[near heath]

photo please

[near heath]

@junior elbow is that a lsblk?

[junior elbow]

yeah

[junior elbow]

can you help my configure grub

[twilit basin]

Did you gen the grub config

[junior elbow]

no i just went to the default confi

[twilit basin]

You always have to gen the config

Even if not changing the config in /etc

.aw grub

[plush stump]

Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Grub

[twilit basin]

Section 4.1.1

It's also mentioned right after the install command

[junior elbow]

Ok and do I first generate it and then make changes to the default grub conf or does it not matter?

[junior elbow]

and what do i need to do in the config file to make it see my encrypted root partition

[twilit basin]

It has to be every time the config is changed

[twilit basin]

Are there issues after regening the config?

[junior elbow]

i tried making a config running this command: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

it just returned this

in my lsblk only the root is mounted to /

idk why though pretty sure i mounted both

[twilit basin]

If you reboot you have to remount

And in the correct order

Root first

[junior elbow]

it‘s so weird I have /mnt/boot mounted outside chroot but not inside chroot so i cant install grub

[twilit basin]

So fix it

Mount in the correct order

@junior elbow

[junior elbow]

@twilit basin i did the grub install now and made the config file how do i make it see my encrypted root?

[twilit basin]

...

[twilit basin]

If you've configured it properly it should be done

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

[junior elbow]

idk how to configure it i just ran the command dont i need to add some sort of flags in the /default/grub

[junior elbow]

i tried rebooting now this is my problem… @twilit basin

[twilit basin]

Well then you obviously didn't configure it right

Did you configure everything like the wiki says?

Show lsblk -f and the kernel parameters and the mkinitcpio hooks and did you regen the initramfs?

And what method you're using

I assume LVM on LUKS?

[junior elbow]

im using luks on a partition

first i edited the mkinktcpio conf and added the hooks from the wiki, regnerated them and the rebooted

[junior elbow]

cant the system already done for now

[twilit basin]

You can just boot the installer and mount your partitions

[junior elbow]

last time i did that it messed everything up

all the mountpoints were different

[twilit basin]

You do the mounting yourself...

So if you mount differently then the mountpoints are of course going to be different

[junior elbow]

can you please tell me what i did wrong its like the 50th time i tried installing arch im abt to quit

@twilit basin what do i need to do so it understands what to boot

it even gave me the arch linux login options before

[twilit basin]

As I don't know what you put in the configs I don't know what you did wrong...

[junior elbow]

can we go in a vc and i share my screen so its easier? i went back into chroot

i didnt change anything in grub only the hooks in mkinitcpio.conf

[junior elbow]

@twilit basin

[twilit basin]

In this time you could have taken screenshots

[junior elbow]

of what though idk what to do?

[twilit basin]

Mount the partitions and show the config files

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#Configuring_mkinitcpio

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#Configuring_the_boot_loader

and lsblk -f

[junior elbow]

OK give me a minute

tried my best to give good screenshots of mkinitcpio.conf, default etc grub conf, and lsblk -f and lsblk @twilit basin

[twilit basin]

Grub not configured

[junior elbow]

how do i configure it

[twilit basin]

Bruh

[twilit basin]

.

[junior elbow]

yeah but where do i need to paste that line in it doesnt say anything @twilit basin

[twilit basin]

There's a hyperlink

Kernel parameters

[junior elbow]

so how does adding "quiet splash" to my grub config file make it detect my encrypted volume?

im confused

[twilit basin]

No

It's a example

[junior elbow]

oh so i need to add the "cryptdevice=UUID=device-UUID:root root=/dev/mapper/root" to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT"? @twilit basin

[twilit basin]

With the device-uuid replaced

[junior elbow]

yeah ofc and after that and re gening the config i can reboot?

[twilit basin]

Yeah

[junior elbow]

well.. idk what happened

i did everything as you said @twilit basin