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Erasing the boot disk on an external hard drive
The sdb device isn't a folder or file to be erased, it is the representation of the actual disk device. You cannot use rm to erase partitions on this device.
If you want to remove the partitions, you ...
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Grub install with encrypted Boot partition
grub-install is expecting to find /boot, but cannot, because according to your lsblk, it's at /mnt/boot... so you aren't chrooted into the new installation at this time.
But I agree with Sheldon: ...
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Diagnosing absurdly long boot time on Pop!_OS 21.10
Oh my, you have quite some list.
I'll look at it:
[ 0.240256] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol
[_SB.PCI0.PB2], AE_NOT_FOUND (20210930/dswload2-162) [ 0.240269]
ACPI Error: ...
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Erasing the boot disk on an external hard drive
my recommendation:
alias lsblk2='lsblk -o type,name,label,partlabel,size,fstype,model,serial,wwn,uuid'
then run lsblk2 and identify the correct device... i.e./dev/sdb in your case... so you don't ...
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Determine what program is in my MBR code
The ms-sys utility can not only identify many variants of MBR and PBR boot codes, but also write them if needed.
Usage:
ms-sys [options] [device]
Options:
-1, --fat12 Write a FAT12 ...
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grub not working with lvm
as @psusi pointed out, the issue was that my lvm binaries were corrupt. I ran
apt-cache depends lvm2 | grep Depends | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt install --reinstall -y
apt install --reinstall -y ...
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Automatically mounting LUKS encrypted volume during boot
If you are comfortable with storing your encryption key on the (encrypted) root partition, this is doable. Create the file /etc/crypttab.keyfile containing your key. I have then used something like
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