12 Year Old Dell Desktop - openSUSE Install Successful - But Can't Boot Into openSUSE After?

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Hi,

I have a 12 year old Dell desktop.
I decided to install openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE 64Bit onto it today.
The install took about 30 minutes, but it looks like it was successful.

After install I rebooted but it won’t get past hard drive encryption passphrase?
I enter the encryption passphrase and then there are errors.
Please look at below screenshot.
Any ideas, thanks!

Dell desktop has: Intel Core2Extreme 3GHz 4-Core CPU & 8GB DDR2 RAM Memory
Not sure about the video card - might be an older nVidia one
Hard drive is a Western Digital 1TB HDD

Jesse

http://fallenangelsoftware.com/stuff/files/4Stuff/OldDellDesktop.-01jpg

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Hi
Faulty drive… boot from a rescue system (eg Tumbleweed Rescue) and run smartctl -a /dev/sda (if that’s the disk) and see what it’s status is.

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I could be mistaken. But I am guessing that the “fd0” is the floppy disk drive.

If you actually have a floppy drive, try putting a floppy in it before you boot. If you don’t have a floppy drive (or even if you do), see if you can disable it in the BIOS.

It is failing to find the encrypted partition. It could be a bad sector, or it could be due to the fd0 errors.

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It failed to decrypt encrypted partition (access denied). Keyboard layout issue?

But I am guessing that the “fd0” is the floppy disk drive.

Yes, but it does not matter. grub scans all devices for its root device, that’s all. This is already past attempt to decrypt LUKS container.

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A notebook can be lost/stolen, but what is the use case for an encrypted filesystem on a desktop? :-o

Reinstall without this “feature”, if you keep delicate data on the machine use a Truecrypt container. :wink:

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Hi,

I tried a different keyboard and it works now!
I don’t see anything wrong with the original keyboard - perhaps openSUSE disliked it?
Thanks!

Jesse

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All computers eventually fail, and must be sent to the recycling center (or wherever else). Encrypting the disk means that you don’t have to worry about what happens at that recycling center.

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That’s good to hear.

I don’t see anything wrong with the original keyboard - perhaps openSUSE disliked it?

OpenSUSE was not even loaded yet. And grub uses the BIOS to read the keyboard. Maybe your BIOS didn’t like that keyboard.

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I have a 13 year old Dell notebook and found that I had to go into the BIOS settings to get it to work as I wanted; it has some features which are irrelevant today and needed disabling.