Encrypted Manjaro Yonada Installation fails at boot

[floeri]

I just installed the latest version of “full” manjaro KDE Plasma on my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Gen 3.
I used the graphical “Yonada” Installer and activated full disk encryption.
I tried it with swap and hypernation and also without swap (default).

After booting into the Installation first time I was asked to enter the encryption Passphrase.

Enter passphrase for hd0,gpt2 (a5de0725-5d16-44d0-8448-107e00ee8d2c):

After entering the passphrase and confirming with Enter it says

Attempting to decrypt master key...

After a minute or two it says

error: access denied.
error: disk 'cryptouuid/a5de07255d1644d08448107e00ee8d2c' not found.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue> _

I checked the UUID, its correct. Opening the Encryption works with the live-manjaro without any difficulty.

I did the installation again but without disk encyption and was able to boot into the installed system without any problems.

I would really like to use manjaro with encryption as I take my laptop with me to many places and do not want my private data to be accessible to anybody if my Laptop gets stolen.

Does anyone has an idea how to solve that problem?

I am happy to give more details if needed.

Processor: 8 x Intel Core i5-8350U CPU
Graphics Processor: Mensa Intel UHD Graphics 620
Hard Drive: SSD

Manjaro-Version (Filename): manjaro-kde-24.2.1-241216-linux612

I tried the manjaro System Recovery tool but it would not recognize any Linux installation, even if I have already opened the encryption.

[kisun]

Hello @floeri,

while boot it could be that there is an other keyboard-layout. So if english keyboard-layout is not your system standard, it could be that you will just input a wrong password.

[Nachlese]

What @kisun said - if your system language or keyboard layout is not english.

If that’s the case you could figure out a way to type your password as if you where typing on an english layout keyboard
or
simply reinstall and choose a password which you can type as if your keyboard was in english.

After first boot you can adjust the keyboard layout - and change the password to something else - but the installer doesn’t let you do it if your language is not english.

[floeri]

Thanks a lot. That finally solved the problem.

[Nachlese]

Once you have booted, set the correct console keymap in
/etc/vconsole.conf
→

Linux console/Keyboard configuration - ArchWiki

then add the “keymap” hook (the keyword) to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

mkinitcpio - ArchWiki

then run
update-grub
or
mkinitcpio -P

and the keymap of your choice will be available and you can type your password without problems.

[cscs]

@Nachlese

update-grub
or
mkinitcpio -P

Rather you would need both in the opposite order.

sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo update-grub

[Nachlese]

Right - thank’s for the correction.

The command update-grub is a script which actually runs this command:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
… which would not generate an updated initrd - which is what is wanted here