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Bug#660191: This would be very nice indeed.

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I recently had a Debian 12 (bookworm) fail somewhere in the boot
process. The EFI firmware didn't recognize the nvme device. However,
the d-i netinst not only recognized the device, but recognized the
encrypted partition on it, and the LVM PV in the encrypted partition.
After I gave it the password for the encrypted partition, it made the
LVs available to me, and I was able to chroot into the system.

So it looks like everything you need to open an encrypted partition and
PV within that already exists on the d-i installer. Alas, they are not
available in partman when installing. Instead I installed Debian 13
(trixie), and spent most of two days restoring programs and data.

This line from syslog might be a hint:

Sep 10 16:08:05 main-menu[464]: (process:6666):
/lib/partman/active_partition/86opal_factory_reset/choices: line 8:
/sbin/cryptsetup: not found

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Bug#660191: This would be very nice indeed. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2025-09-12 22:20 +0200

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