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grub2 - Finding an encrypted Debian

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I have a Triple-Boot-System, with Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.10 and Crunchbang (a Debian derivative - unstable Debian at that).

I am trying to get all encrypted: Windows with TrueCrypt FDE, chaining grub on an extra boot partition with the Windows Bootloader on MBR.
Since Ubuntu cut out the encryption option (none in ubiquity and no alternate install), Ubuntu is not encrypted.
Crunchbang though is.

My Partition map looks thus as follows:

sda1: Win7

sda2: win7-boot junk (installed it by default - what is that anyway?!)

sda3: /boot

sda4: ubuntu

sda5: encrypted -> sda8(?): crunchbang

sda6: encrypted -> sda9(?): swap

sda7: another ext4

Thing is, after installation, I could boot Windows and Crunchbang fine. update-grub however printed out that he found Ubuntu, no Crunchbang but after reboot he just gave me Crunchbang.

Reinstalled Ubuntu, including grub on sda3. Now he only finds Ubuntu.

The latter I think is quite obvious, how should grub find an encrypted os? But could someone explain to me how I can Dual-Boot two (in theory encrypted) Linux's with grub2?

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answered 2 Years ago coffekne · Accepted Answer

When you do an update-grub, it scans all the partitions it can see for OSs that it knows what to do with. If your encrypted partition is not mounted when it scans, it will not find the OSs that are encrypted.

So your first step is to decrypt the encrypted partitions and mount them to a block device. You can do this with cryptsetup:

cryptsetup luksOpen <device> <name>

So if your encrypted device is /dev/sda5 (your partition structure isn't clear), use something like

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 crunch

to decrypt /dev/sda5 and mount the decrypted block device (not the filesystem!) on /dev/mapper/crunch. Then you can go ahead and mount /dev/mapper/crunch <some mountpoint> as normal.