My setup:
Manjaro version 5.15.50-1, installed with LUKS encryption
CPU: Intel Core i5-10600
Motherboard: MSI B460M-Pro-VDH
Primary SSD: Western Digital Black SN750 1TB M.2-2280 (WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0)
This is not a dual boot GRUB setup. I have Windows on a completely separate SSD and I switch between the two by changing the boot order in the BIOS. There are 3 drives installed in the case: the primary SSD with Manjaro, the secondary SSD (SanDisk SDSSDHII120G) with Windows, and a third (WDC WD3200AAKS spinning disk, not SSD) with data. There is also a 4th portable drive plugged into a USB port for backups (WD My Passport 2626).
When I boot up, I see an error message
error: invalid sector size 65535.
followed by the normal prompt for the decryption master key
Attempting to decrypt master key…
Enter passphrase for hd5,gpt2 (long-code-here):
I also have exactly (to the extent humanly possible) the same installation of Manjaro on a laptop, and do not see this error message. The hardware is completely different but the process I followed to install Manjaro was the same, from the same flash drive.
I’m not seeing any ill effects, but I’m curious what that error means.
I saw a related post, so here are the logs requested there:
> inxi -Fza
System:
Kernel: 5.15.50-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=f65c7da7-e33a-4a85-8192-eb4496c4ca9a rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=605a72eb-231c-4f8f-8bed-60a8a0e0bfa7:luks-605a72eb-231c-4f8f-8bed-60a8a0e0bfa7
root=/dev/mapper/luks-605a72eb-231c-4f8f-8bed-60a8a0e0bfa7 splash
apparmor=1 security=apparmor
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-8043e7b1-f723-4004-92c2-696f3a875ae6
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 42.2 tk: GTK v: 3.24.34 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM v: 42.0
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B460M PRO-VDH (MS-7C83) v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.40
date: 12/04/2020
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-10600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
gen: core 10 built: 2020 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165)
stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 79235
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-S GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
ports: active: DP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2,HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:9bc8 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation FHD Camera Microphone type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3.1.4:8 chip-ID: 1bcf:28c4
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.2
compositor: gnome-shell driver: N/A display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-1 res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CML GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-V cAVS vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 1-10:10
alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl chip-ID: 0c76:120f class-ID: 0300
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a3f0 serial: <filter> class-ID: 0403
Device-2: JMTek LLC. MICUSB type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation FHD Camera Microphone type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-3.1.4:8 chip-ID: 1bcf:28c4
class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.50-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-3.1.3:6 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.13 TiB used: 322.43 GiB (10.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 111110WD temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDHII120G
size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 00RL scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD3200AAKS-00L9A0 size: 298.09 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 3E01
scheme: MBR
ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 2626 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1028 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 914.17 GiB size: 898.75 GiB (98.31%)
used: 45.32 GiB (5.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-605a72eb-231c-4f8f-8bed-60a8a0e0bfa7
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 440 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.04 GiB used: 1.8 MiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-8043e7b1-f723-4004-92c2-696f3a875ae6
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 378 Uptime: 5h 26m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.49 GiB
used: 6.43 GiB (41.5%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1511
lib: 436 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: gnome-terminal
inxi: 3.3.19
and
> sudo parted -l
Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDHII (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 368MB 367MB fat32 boot, esp
2 368MB 119GB 118GB ntfs msftdata
3 119GB 120GB 910MB ntfs hidden, diag
Model: ATA WDC WD3200AAKS-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 320GB 320GB primary ntfs
Model: WD My Passport 2626 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ntfs
Model: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2097kB 317MB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
2 317MB 982GB 982GB root
3 982GB 1000GB 18.3GB