Johannes Meixner

By the way: Regarding Self Encrypting Drives in general I found https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/psfa/7.2.1?topic=administration-about-self-encrypting-drives that reads (excerpt): ``` Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) encrypt data as it is written to the disk. Each disk...

@edmcman yes, USE_SERIAL_CONSOLE='no' *should* have provided more console output BUT what actually matters is what 'console' kernel command line options are set when booting the kernel. Normally (i.e. when booting...

Perhaps 'nomodeset' should be set by default because according to what I understand how things work in https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3194#issuecomment-2044355011 the only purpose of booting what there is in the MBR shadow...

I would try to avoid special GPU stuff if possible. When things look OK on the screen with 'nomodeset' for the only purpose to unlock the drive then I think...

FYI: For the bootloader setup of the ReaR recovery system we set `vga=normal` ``` usr/share/rear/conf/templates/RESULT_usage_RAMDISK.txt --command-line='root=/dev/ram0 vga=normal' usr/share/rear/lib/bootloader-functions.sh echo "append initrd=$REAR_INITRD_FILENAME root=/dev/ram0 vga=normal rw $KERNEL_CMDLINE" echo "append initrd=$REAR_INITRD_FILENAME root=/dev/ram0 vga=normal...

I am not a SED user but from what I see at https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3194#issuecomment-2047794207 I even think the "system76 ... Ubuntu" GUI prompt is misleading because (as far as I understand...

I think 'vga=normal' alone cannot work when the GPU is used but without firmware because the GPU without firmware cannot show any screen output (also none in 'vga=normal' mode). So...