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Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by Martin Nuc

Martin Nuc — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:34:55 +0000

Hi everybody. I was fighting with "Alert! /dev/mapper/vg-root does not exsist. Dropping to a shell."
Nothing here helped so here I post what worked for me:
http://www.nuc.cz/backtrack-5-persistent-usb-devmappervg-root-d

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Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by Klathmon

Klathmon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:25:50 +0000

root@root:~# cryptsetup luskOpen /dev/sdc5 pvcryptUsage: cryptsetup
^^^^
it should be luks not lusk, just a typo

Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by Jay

Jay — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:48:16 +0000

THANK YOU!!! after my installation, booting worked just fine. Did apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and it didn't boot afterwards. THIS post saved me

Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by Zachary Galifianakis

Zachary Galifianakis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:19:14 +0000

I have tried and tried to make this work, but am still getting the same error when trying to boot from the encrypted drive...

Begin: waiting for encrypted source device… …

I then wait for a few min’s and then it shows:

-r ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/2875495c-f54f-4130-9ed4-be8f7192812d does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox V1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter ‘help’ for a list of built in commands.

(initramfs)

This is NOT a problem relating to USB 3.0 as mentioned above.
Any suggestions?

Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by Gorgio

Gorgio — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:40:16 +0000

Yes i tryed this, but that is solution for splash screen, i even did not get there. When usually start boot loader menu a have there only blank screen with blinking cursor. I cannot type anythink.

Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by kriggins

kriggins — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:23:24 +0000

@gorgio,

Did you try this bit?

IMPORTANT

In my case, the system boots and looks like it is hanging at the Backtrack 5 splash screen. Simply press F8 to get to the console, where it is waiting for you to enter your luks passphrase. Type that bad boy in and, if all goes well, your system will boot.

Kevin

Comment on Backtrack 5 – Bootable USB Thumb Drive with “Full” Disk Encryption by Gorgio

Gorgio — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:17:48 +0000

Hi,
i followed tutorial step-byl-step twice and i always had same problem.

Every step had OK, no errors, but after i reboot and try to boot from USB i get blank screen only with blinking cursor in left corner. Grub loader dont workink. LED indicator on USB dont lighting. I tryed to format stick and do everythink again, again with no error, but same problem. I am littlebit frustrated.
I was even trying to install on other flash stick but same...

Please help
Thank Gorgio

Comment on Backtrack 4 Video – USB With “Full” Disk Encryption by kriggins

kriggins — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:33:48 +0000

The first part of the how-to clearly states that the boot partition is un-encrypted.

Comment on Backtrack 4 Video – USB With “Full” Disk Encryption by Satish

Satish — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:11:09 +0000

Hello, The "boot" partition is not encrypted. So it is not a "full" hard disk encryption. Is there any boor loader exist, which can read and execute kernel and initramfs from the "encrypted" partition ?