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I'm trying to install Lubuntu on a Asus Eee PC 1500HA of a friend of mine. It was running lubuntu already, but now I wanted to reinstall it with encryption. First I got the problem of the "swap", then of "lvm" and now, after I THOUGHT I installed it correctly, I got:

BusyBox v1.22.1 built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

(initramfs)_

I tried to follow instructions here: How can I debug why Ubuntu boots to BusyBox?, but it didn't work... I tried some commands:

$ sudo blkid | grep swap
/dev/zram0: UUID="672ff5a1-9dd7-4b6d-b81c-5b80bf47810a" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram1: UUID="a9af25d4-f007-4f1b-bdc8-cc2715ba3843" TYPE="swap"

$ sudo dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep superblock
dumpe2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
dumpe2fs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda2
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="cfe7e23c-2b60-408b-8181-ef36a68c75bb" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="f50e06aa-01"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="9f6412d3-4a57-4007-8c7b-91cbceb95016" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="f50e06aa-05"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="2017-04-12-03-29-44-00" LABEL="Lubuntu 17.04 i386" TYPE="iso9660" PARTUUID="67a62368-01"
/dev/zram0: UUID="672ff5a1-9dd7-4b6d-b81c-5b80bf47810a" TYPE="swap"
/dev/zram1: UUID="a9af25d4-f007-4f1b-bdc8-cc2715ba3843" TYPE="swap"

$ cat /etc/fstab
aufs / aufs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0

I don't understand these outputs as I don't know much about partitioning. How can I get my installation to boot?

Zanna
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Gino
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The Lubuntu Alternate Installer

It might work better, if you install from the Lubuntu alternate iso file. Otherwise there might be problems caused by zram, that is used when running live from a desktop iso file.

See the following link, that was made as instructions for testing iso files before release, but it is useful also in this case,

Alternate Install (Unencrypted home) in Lubuntu Alternate i386

These instructions are intended to install a Lubuntu system with encrypted disk (LVM with encryption).

sudodus
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