The encryption defaults changed sometime recently. The defaults cryptsetup command I had in a script stopped mount my encrypted filesystem until I did a bunch of research and found out what parameters needed to be specified to match the prior default. If you want to try what I found out reply and I can boot up the encrypted machine and see what parameters I needed to add. On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 1:48 PM richard emberson <emberson.rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > Keyboard does not look like it is the issue. > > I also tried to start the fedora rescue selection, but it also > required the entry of the LUKS passphrase (Curiously, while a normal > release starts with a different gui and stops asking for the passphrase > after 4 or 5 attempts, the rescue selection just keeps asking for the > passphrase ... maybe forever.) > > So, I decided to see if I could get the DVD drive to be recognized by > the motherboard. When I put a DVD into it and executed from > Maintenance Mode: > cat /dev/sr0 > nothing is produced. > The media server has been quietly sitting in a corner for years. > Anyway, with a twice over with my small air compressor making > sure I manually opened the DVD drive and clearing any dust, the > system then recognize a DVD and I could do an installation: > installed linuxmint-20.3-xfce-64bit.iso > then installed Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-41-1.4.iso over the linuxmint > installation but kept the /boot/efi directory so that > the installation did an efi installation (not bios). > I assume this is a trick that is not known by many and as my > original email said, It was just chance that I guessed it might work. > > While there was some stuff in the original /home directory, all of the media > was on other, non-encrypted drives which I've now been able to mount in > this new installation. > Thanks again. > > > On 11/5/24 8:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 18:25 -0800, richard emberson wrote: > >> Early in Maintenance Mode I tested the keyboard and typed in the passphrase, > >> twice, and it appeared on the screen correctly. > > > > Just to be thorough... On the graphical login screen see if there's an > > icon for choosing keyboard layout/language. It is possible for the > > command line (purely textual interface) to be different from the > > graphical interface. > > > > You can't remove disc encryption without re-writing every bit of data > > stored on the disc. When using an encrypted disc the system is > > decrypting the data on the fly, it's always encrypted on the disc. > > > > Are you sure you want to do that, or simply access the encrypted data? > > > > Of course, when it comes to updating an old installation of something > > with a new version of something else, there is every chance that the > > old encryption scheme isn't supported any more, so you would have to > > re-encrypt the drive (or just decrypt it, if you don't want encrypted > > contents any more). > > > > You should probably be booting from something else, and something > > that's compatible with the original encryption scheme, to do this. I > > wouldn't risk trying anything that was going to decrypt in-place when > > its running from itself, well not if the OS is encrypted. I'd be more > > confident about doing that if it's simply user data space that was > > encrypted. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
