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Dual-booting Encrypted Windows and Encrypted Linux
Whole disk encryption in Linux is easy nowadays if you install your operating system correctly. It’s easy in
Windows as well with TrueCrypt. Complications occur though when you’re trying to dual-boot Linux and
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The easiest way to set up a dual-boot system is to install the bootloader that comes with your Linux distro in your contact me and if I know about it,

master boot record (MBR), and add Windows to the boot list. The problem is that if you set up TrueCrypt system I'll post about it.

encryption in Windows, it overwrites whatever is in the MBR (for this example, grub) with the TrueCrypt
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It’s possible to get TrueCrypt to chainload grub, so you can boot into both, but it gets worse. When your Linux
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package manager upgrades your kernel image (this happens in Ubuntu unbelievably often), grub will reinstall itself
in the MBR, overwriting the TrueCrypt bootloader. At this point, the only way to boot into Windows is to boot
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This is all a big pain in the ass, but luckily there’s a simple solution! It’s possible to keep grub installed in your MBR, RSS Feed
have Windows in your grub boot list, and when you choose it, have grub chainload to the TrueCrypt bootloader
that lives somewhere outside your MBR. Here’s how to set it up.

Install Windows on part of your hard drive.

Install Linux with encrypted filesystems on the rest of it, and let grub overwrite your MBR. For now, keep a
Windows entry in grub.conf.

Boot into Windows, install TrueCrypt, and set up system encryption. It will make you burn a rescue CD,
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And that’s it. How does that work? You grab the TrueCrypt bootloader from the MBR and save it as the file
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Caleb says:
April 12, 2009 at 5:08 pm

Thank you for the fine article. Although I used LILO, this was very helpful and just what I needed to make it
work.

Caleb

JDB says:
April 21, 2009 at 9:24 am

Great article, but I’m having an issue reinstalling the grub bootloader. Maybe you have a suggestion if you have
ever run into this before. My config differs from yours in that I do not have a separate boot partition.

sda1 – Windows Vista

sda5 – Ubuntu 8.10
sda6 – Swap

There is a boot folder on sda5 so I mounted it, switched to the boot folder and backed up the TrueCrypt MBR to
there. However, when I try to reinstall the grub bootloader using the command grub-install /dev/sda, I get the
following error:

“Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device”

If you have any ideas, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,
JD

m0rebel says:
April 21, 2009 at 11:43 am

JDB, I’m assuming you’re trying to run grub-install from the ubuntu LiveCD, like I suggested in the article. For
grub-install to work without errors, you need to have the real boot directory on your hard drive mounted to
/boot. Normally all you need to do is mount your boot partition to /boot, but since you don’t have a separate
boot partition you’ll have to instead mount your root partition to /, since it contains the real /boot. You can’t
really do that though (it would involve deleting the whole OS that’s running), so instead you should mount it to
somewhere else and chroot to it. This is from the top of my head, but it would be something like this:

mkdir /mnt/root
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/root
chroot /mnt/root /bin/bash

At that point, you get a new bash session (technically running /mnt/root/bin/bash) where / is /mnt/root. Then
you can try running grub-install /dev/sda to see if that works.

What you might be able to do also is use a symbolic link just for the boot directory. Like this:

mkdir /mnt/root
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/root
rm -r /boot
ln -s /mnt/root/boot /boot

Then try it. This basically would just make /boot point to /mnt/root/boot, which is you real boot partition. I don’t
know if this would work, but it might.

Also keep in mind that you can only do this stuff if you’re not using encrypted partitions in Ubuntu, which I’m
sure you know. The easiest way to set up whole disk encryption in Ubuntu would be to just re-install Ubuntu
from the alternate cd. Hope this helps!

Per Olav says:

June 26, 2009 at 11:48 pm

The windows stanza in /menu.lst did not work for me. I had to use this:

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July 1, 2009 at 3:07 am

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