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I accidentally wiped the /boot partition of my running Ubuntu 14.04. Is there a way to restore it? My Ubuntu system is encrypted and I am dual booting Windows 7.

Thanks in advance!

Jan B
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  • You can start with this existing question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/130281/how-to-restore-boot-folder – mbiber Oct 24 '14 at 16:26
  • If I run sudo grub-install /dev/sda I get Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: error: attempt to install to encrypted disk without cryptodisk enabled. SetGRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=1' in file /etc/default/grub'..

    I reinstalled the kernel earlier already. When running grub-update it only find the windows partition: Generating grub configuration file ... No volume groups found Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1 done

     – Jan B Oct 24 '14 at 16:35
  • Have you done this? Set GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=1' in file /etc/default/grub'.. – mbiber Oct 24 '14 at 16:37
  • yes I already did this. Though it had no effect on the error message. I just reinstalled the system and luckily if you choose the same username and password at least the ecryptfs encrypted home dir can be reused without problems – Jan B Oct 24 '14 at 20:59

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I managed to get past this error by settings GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y, i.e. y instead of 1, despite what the error message says.

I found this solution on the ArchWiki.

decibyte
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