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Dual boot Linux - boot failure after XP Encryption

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patkim
patkim Original post #1
Mar 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM
I recently installed Disk Crypt Trial software to check how the disk / partition encryption works. I have Dual boot XP & Linux. Now after encrypting one of the XP partitions, the Linux fails to boot. It is just stuck up at startup (text screen) itself. Probably it is trying to map / mount the XP partitions and fails there due to one partition being encrypted.

Just wondering if there could be any workaround.
Thanks,
M
mehulved #2
Mar 23, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Yes you can bypass that. You will have to boot into single user mode, open the file /etc/fstab
Code: 
nano /etc/fstab
Now delete all the lines that are mounting the windows partition.