Re: Booting TrueCrypt Windows Hard Drive

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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Rob Power wrote:
> Hi to all!
> I have a similar problem with this configuration:
> sda1 : Ubuntu boot Partition
> sda2 : Ubuntu Encrypted root
> sda3 : Windows XP (other people have same problem with Vista)
> encrypted with Truecrypt.
> There's a bug report related to this problem here
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/484102 ) opened
> by another user.
>
You have posted the same bug report to the same list twice in last two
days. Most people (including) just didn't have time yet to read through
list and your double posting isn't making it easier. Your problem is
that truecrypt booter and grub conflict for the use of mbr gap. Best
solution to this problem is to make truecrypt multiboot-compliant. I
shouldn't be difficult (you can have a look at how it was recently done
in Haiku) but I won't spend any of my time on it
> With grub-legacy everything works well: It chainloads the XP Truecrypt
> boot manager from a dump file. Here's the old menu.lst.
> ------------------- menu.lst ---------------------------
> title Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,2)
> makeactive
> chainloader (hd0,0)/truecrypt.mbr
> boot
> ------------------------------
> ------------------------------
>
> Now, all what I get from Truecrypt boot loader is this message:
> "TrueCrypt Boot Loader: Load damaged! Use Rescue Disk: Repair >
> Options > Restore Truecrypt Boot Loader"
> Here is my actual grub.cfg entry.
> -------------------- grub.cfg ---------------------------
> menuentry "Windows XP" {
>         insmod chain
>         set root=(hd0,3)
>     parttool (hd0,3) boot+
>         chainloader (hd0,1)/truecrypt.mbr
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> How did you succeed to make it boot?
> I mean, you find a way using drivemap to swap hd0 and hd1: is there a
> way to use drivemap for partitions? I suppose it's only for drives.
> Is there another workaround? I'll be glad to try it on my system to
> find the solution.
> Thanks in advance.
> Rob
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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