During installation with the calamares installer I chose to encrypt my partition along with creating a 5gb swap partition because I thought that a swap partition would be useful for a laptop (still not sure if a swap partition is needed for a laptop or swapfile). I think the swap partition must have been deleted that could be causing the issue. Please let me know how do I proceed on fixing this thank you!!!
Also I forgot to add. While trying to boot it would ask for two passwords to boot into the system. I suppose one password for the main partition and the second password for the second partition but now it does not ask for a second password at all. I was trying to solve that annoyance but i suppose i must have borked something in the way
haha yes i suppose i deleted it with gparted. I assumed by disabling it then deleting it. It would fix the requirement of two password prompts. Is a swap partition required for a laptop or just a swap file. I would love to know your opinion.
I guess a swap file or partition is needed for hibernation but other than that it may or may not be totally necessary but i would probably have one or the other. I’m using swap file but i don’t use hibernation and i don’t install using hibernate.
alright i shall use a swap file next time when i set it up. How do I check if I am using grub to boot or something else to boot. the other alternative is system-md?
Edit: I am only solo booting linux in my laptop as I have windows on my other machine
Systemd-boot is the default now so you would have to select grub if that is what you wanted on the installer. With luks systemd-boot is much quicker to decrypt on boot.
So I am using systemmd-boot or Grub? I am sorry I am just confused. Will i be able to access my partition again without formatting everything
Please let me know the process. I did figure out how to reach the rescue mode by not entering my password 3 times during the prompt. Does the screen grab from above show that I am using systemd-boot or grub.
