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Sharkquavius

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Registered: 2026-05-07

Posts: 2

Password Entry Completely Skipped on HP Omen Ap0xxx

I've been having trouble with my arch install.

Everything works fine until boot.

On a unencrypted install it works without issue.

But when it gets to the encrypt hook it completely skips over it. Trying to pull journalctl post boot is not possible as it fails to load a shell.

[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/vg0/root.
[DEPEND] Dependancy failed for File System Check on /dev/vg0/root 
# Same thing on "/sysroot", "Initrd Root File System"

After hitting enter it fails to load a console, freezing on "Starting initrd.target".

Other details are below.

Hooks are
(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole block encrypt lvm2 filesystems fsck)

Grub is
LINUX="cryptdevice=/dev/nvme0n1p3:cryptlvm root=/dev/vg0/root"

Default is just quiet splash.

Crypto disk is enabled.

Everything else is default. Grub is installed to nvme0n1p1 Fat32 efi dir. Boot files are on nvmepn1p2 ext4 dir.

The fstab's entries look fine and were generated with everything mounted in live usb. (On phone rn if you need any 1:1 pastes lmk)

Thanks all for any help you may provide.

Note: I'm 99% sure it's a hp hardware issue, the exact same steps followed 1:1 work on my othee laptop.

Here's link to exact specs
https://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/i … 2049760-16
I have the amd ryzen ai 9 365 w/ 880m onboard with aRTX 5060 and 32 gb ram.

Installation (pre post install) was followed from here.
https://gist.github.com/huntrar/e42aee6 … d098c81268

Last edited by Sharkquavius (2026-05-07 19:22:50)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Password Entry Completely Skipped on HP Omen Ap0xxx

You're using the sd-encrypt hook but the busybox syntax, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-cry … -generator
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310004

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Sharkquavius

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Registered: 2026-05-07

Posts: 2

Re: Password Entry Completely Skipped on HP Omen Ap0xxx

You're using the sd-encrypt hook but the busybox syntax, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-cry … -generator
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310004

TYSM. All I had to do was add udev and remove systemd. (Or i could go full systemd.)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Password Entry Completely Skipped on HP Omen Ap0xxx

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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