OK. I followed your procedure but have hit a problem during the testing phase.
The grub menu loads and everything goes smoothly until I enter the password for my encrypted partition. Moments after that, I get dozens of "Rejected I/O to dead device" errors. They come in groups of five or so, broken by messages about failures to start getty, id 3 and other parts of the boot process.
I probably made a mistake at some point during the configuration, but I haven't been able to track it down. Any ideas would be welcome.
One final note: like one of the other commentors here, I have a FAT32 sda1 partition on the USB key. (ie boot is sda2 and root is sda3). Perhaps the system is looking for sbin on sda1? But if so, why is it that it requested a password for sda3?
OK. I followed your
OK. I followed your procedure but have hit a problem during the testing phase.
The grub menu loads and everything goes smoothly until I enter the password for my encrypted partition. Moments after that, I get dozens of "Rejected I/O to dead device" errors. They come in groups of five or so, broken by messages about failures to start getty, id 3 and other parts of the boot process.
I probably made a mistake at some point during the configuration, but I haven't been able to track it down. Any ideas would be welcome.
One final note: like one of the other commentors here, I have a FAT32 sda1 partition on the USB key. (ie boot is sda2 and root is sda3). Perhaps the system is looking for sbin on sda1? But if so, why is it that it requested a password for sda3?