I would like to remove the bios password of my laptop.
I did a fresh installation with OS some month ago since than I have to type in two times my password. One time right after starting the PC -no i don’t have a bios password “installed”- and the second one to encrypt my disk and that should be like that.
But how to remove the “first” password?
Some month ago I opend a german topic but nobody replied. Hopefully someone does it now.
Personally, I use an encrypted LVM and a separate partition for “/boot”. The “/boot” partition is unencrypted. I am prompted only once for the encryption key (what you are calling the second one).
If, however, I do not use a separate “/boot” (and I do have one system installed that way), then I am prompted twice.
The first prompt is by the grub2 bootloader. It needs the encryption key to read “/boot” and to access the menu and kernel. The boot menu does not show up until I have given that password. However, it does show “Welcome to Grub” before it requests the encryption key. After giving the key, the boot menu shows up. And when I select an entry and proceed, the second prompt shows up from the kernel that is being loaded.
I think that’s what you are seeing. Or at least that seems to fit your description.
The easiest way to avoid that, it to use a separate unencrypted “/boot”. However, if you are using “btrfs”, it is better to not have a separate “/boot”, because you want the kernels to be part of the snapshot in case of rollback.