Boot Manager - Other internal bootable drives?

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Boot Manager - Other internal bootable drives?

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: Florian Schwarz

Created: 2019-05-30

Updated: 2019-08-31

Florian Schwarz - 2019-05-30

Hello there,

VeraCrypt Boot Loader 1.23 (VCBL) doesn't seem to be able to find bootable partitions on other internal drives, does it?

Current working configuration:
1 hard drive, 4 partitions (MBR):
Drive: 0, Partition: 1 - VCBL/Win10-boot
Drive: 0, Partition: 2 - Win10 (VC encrypted system)
Drive: 0, Partition: 3 - /boot (ext4) with grub 2.02
Drive: 0, Partition: 4 - Ubuntu (luks encrypted system)

VCBL is correctly showing bootable partition 1 and 3.

Due to space requirements and hoped-for easier maintenance wanted configuration:
2 hard drives, each with 2 partitons (MBR):
Drive: 0, Partition: 1 - VCBL/Win10-boot
Drive: 0, Partition: 2 - Win (VC encrypted system)
Drive: 1, Partition: 1 - /boot with grub 2.02
Drive: 1, Partition: 2 - Ubuntu (luks encrypted system)

VCBL is showing only bootable partition 1 from drive 0. Drive 1 partition 1 is only bootable with BIOS boot menu.

Strangely bootable USB-Sticks are no problem and shown as bootable drives in VCBL.

Is that behaviour intended, a missing feature or a bug?

Best Regards,
Florian Schwarz

Last edit: Florian Schwarz 2019-05-30

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Florian Schwarz - 2019-08-31

Someone with technical insight who can help?

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