Ubuntu
ubiquity package

  1. Bug #1173457
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1173457

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Red (reduser) wrote :

Wanted to create a *portable* Linux Mint USB stick with encryption via LUKS. Installed grub to EFI of local system and not on USB stick itself. EFI of local system points to USB stick. Successfully boots to USB stick on this one system, wrecked my local EFI.

What a mess. I'm fortunate I even figured it out and ended up on this page, confirming I am not crazy.

Commenters on Linux forums, Stackexchange/Superuser, etc sent me down various rabbit holes for n00bs (probably because they observed I was attempting install with encryption). Fortunately I had enough Linux experience to finally narrow it down to finding this damn page.

And for the curious, I got the encryption working. On this one system. And my local EFI now has to be repaired. And my USB stick is useless until I repartition and start over.

* CRITICAL ISSUE *