There is a bit of a back story here so please hold the snickering till the end I also preface this with Im by no means a linux expert but Im learning and well we all have to start some where right.
Installed i386 Gnome. fully encrypted on its own usb. Wouldn't boot found a previous post with the issue and used this fix.
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda1_crypt
(enter password)
lvm vgchange -ay
exit Also edited the crypttab file and ran
update-initramfs -u And here is the like for anyone who has issues booting encrypted. http://forums.kali.org/showthread.ph...-fails-to-boot Now at this point every thing is working great. Till I realize I havnt restarted in like a month. No big deal shut down for the night and came back wanted to get back to playing around... Feel free to begin heckling. I remembered my encrypted password no problem. My root password for the life of my I couldn't remember. I tried no joke several hundred times. Looking back on the situation I should of just booted the live CD and mounted the usb and fixed the password issue (not sure how but im sure a little googling could of produced an answer) Awwwwww yet I didnt. I thought might as well re-install Kali. The idea was I installed the 32 bit version I have a 64 bit this seems like the right time to fix this. The disk wipe failed due to I believe it was a I/O error. I moved the USB to the desktop and tried to wipe it and write "0's" and that failed used EaseUS partition Mgr, Windows disk Manager. Moved to a live CD (bootit bare metal) partition manager to try to format it or to wipe it. Again failed. I brought it back to a Kali live CD tried to run
blkid Disk doesnt pull up. Im sure everyone is looking at me like... this guy Any help would be nice I would like my thumbdrive back Thumbdrive is a CORSAIR Flash Voyager 32GB USB 3.0 Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Running Pentium T4500 4GB RAM It is a 64 bit system
root@kali:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd77841c8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 206848 625137476 312465314+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
root@kali:~# blkid
/dev/sr0: LABEL="Kali Live" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
root@kali:~#
Both were with my USB plugged in.
root@kali:~# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb
root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b1d6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
root@kali:~# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug 3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.982744] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Aug 3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.983545] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 156 512-byte logical blocks: (79.8 kB/78.0 KiB)
Aug 3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.983917] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Aug 3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.984289] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Aug 3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.991538] sdb: unknown partition table
Aug 3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.993915] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Aug 3 12:09:26 localhost kernel: [ 1113.116140] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, device number 7
Aug 3 12:09:26 localhost kernel: [ 1113.120059] scsi 8:0:0:0: killing request
Aug 3 12:09:26 localhost kernel: [ 1113.121402] sdb: detected capacity change from 79872 to 0
Aug 3 12:09:30 localhost kernel: [ 1117.024126] usb 5-1: new full-speed USB device number 6 using uhci_hcd
[ 1643.112096] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd[ 1643.236106] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 1655.692377] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 1655.964109] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[ 1656.504077] usb 1-6: device not accepting address 11, error -71
[ 1656.616083] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[ 1656.750612] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1e4e, idProduct=0368
[ 1656.750619] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1656.750625] usb 1-6: Product: USB FLASH DRIVER
[ 1656.750629] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: eEver
[ 1656.751262] scsi9 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0
[ 1657.868105] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, device number 12
[ 1658.116054] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 7 using uhci_hcd
[ 1658.236063] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 1658.491115] usb 5-2: Parent hub missing LPM exit latency info. Power management will be impacted.
[ 1658.496118] usb 5-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[ 1658.534113] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1e4e, idProduct=0368
[ 1658.534120] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1658.534125] usb 5-2: Product: USB FLASH DRIVER
[ 1658.534130] usb 5-2: Manufacturer: eEver
[ 1658.537314] scsi10 : usb-storage 5-2:1.0
[ 1659.540175] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Drive 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 1659.541584] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 1659.546925] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 156 512-byte logical blocks: (79.8 kB/78.0 KiB)
[ 1659.549145] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1659.549155] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: bf 00 00 00
[ 1659.556152] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1659.598142] sdb: unknown partition table
[ 1659.619153] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
I hope all of this code helps. Thank you.