I installed Qubes OS and created a separate boot partition. The system stopped booting probably after encrypting the entire partition with Bitlocker.
How to add a Qubes boot partition to an existing grub in which I have several Linux systems and Windows 11. Even after disabling secure boot mode, when trying to repair the boot from the installation disk, Qubes does not see the installed system. Although it correctly recognizes and indicates the p9 partition on which Qubes was encrypted.
Can qubes boot from a disk that was encrypted with bitlocker after its installation? and the qubes partition itself is separately encrypted?
Computers are like air conditioning. They stop working when you open Windows.
Yeah. Long story about that tool. For now, get up to that stage again, and then follow this guide:
Am I right in assuming that you’re familiar with how GRUB config files work?
You can add a custom boot entry for Qubes OS there, too, if you like. If you’re not sure what to put in there, you can always copy and paste the entries from /EFI/qubes/grub.cfg entries in the default one provided by the installer.
I don’t see any valid reason why it cannot be done, as long as something unlocks the boot partition (I’m assuming you have an onboard TPM or you’re inputting a key somehow, forgive me, I’m not the biggest fan of Windows ), and it passes it along to GRUB to multiboot Xen.
Expect Windows to do all sorts of unpredictable things to your custom boot partition every time you boot into Windows. UEFI entries deleted, GRUB obliterated, “Something unknown was in MY boot partition, so I sent the entire file to Microsoft for analysis and then purged it. Am I amazing or what?”.
I’ve never really had any interaction with bitlocker - but this thread made me search a bit about bitlocker and Linux … and it looks like there is some software that can retrieve data from a blocker volume:
I’ve not tested it - but I wouldn’t expect the Qubes OS installation disk to have the dislocker tool installed … so that’s probably why it can’t recover/repair the system.
), and it passes it along to GRUB to multiboot Xen.
