Ben's notes

With Secure Boot and rootfs LUKS encryption

Notes:

• Was not able to install /boot on the encrypted partition. The signed grub loader doesn't seem to have all required modules signed. So I've installed /boot onto the ESP partition.

• Install debootstrap:

  apt install debootstrap

• First unmount (auto)mounted partitions.
• Partition the SSD. Start at sector 65535, for correct alignment of my SSD drive. Create a 512MiB UEFI ESP and 32GiB partition for Ubuntu.

  parted --script /dev/sdX              \
      mklabel gpt                       \
      mkpart ESP fat32 65535s 1114095s  \
      toggle 1 boot                     \
      mkpart Ubuntu 1179630s 68287470s

• Format the ESP:

  mkfs.fat -F32 -n ESP /dev/sdX1

• Create an encrypted partiton for Ubuntu:

  cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdX2
  cryptsetup open /dev/sdX2 cryptroot
  mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/cryptroot

• Mount root partition:

  mount /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt

• Mount ESP as /boot:

  mkdir -p /mnt/boot
  mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/boot

• Install Ubuntu.

  debootstrap --arch amd64 bionic /mnt http://mirror.transip.net/ubuntu/ubuntu

• Enter chroot:

  mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
  mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys
  mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
  cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc
  
  XTERM=xterm-color LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH="$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin" chroot /mnt bash
  export PS1="\e[0;31m\u@CHROOT:\w# \e[m"

• Create new user:

  useradd -d /home/user -G sudo -m -s /bin/bash user
  passwd user

• Configure locales and timezone:

  dpkg-reconfigure locales tzdata

• Add root and boot filesystem to /etc/fstab:

  # Lookup UUID's:
  #     blkid /dev/sdb1    # ESP
  #     lsblk -f /dev/sdb2    # run from outside chroot, this is the UUID of the / ext4 partition, not LUKS!
  
  /etc/fstab
  UUID=<UUID root filesystem> /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
  UUID=<UUID ESP>             /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2

• Update apt repository sources:

  cat > /etc/apt/sources.list <<EOF
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main restricted
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic universe
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates universe
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic multiverse
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates multiverse
  deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
  EOF
  

• Update packages:

  apt update
  apt upgrade

• Install required packages. Don't select a disk to install grub onto! Continue without installing grub.

  apt install linux-image-generic efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-signed cryptsetup initramfs-tools shim-signed

• Configure crypttab:

  # Lookup UUID with blkid
  #    blkid /dev/sdb2
  
  echo "cryptroot UUID=<UUID> none luks" >> /etc/crypttab

• Configure grub:

  cat >> /etc/default/grub <<EOF
  GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y
  GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
  EOF

• Configure initramfs:

  sed -i '/^#CRYPTSETUP=/c\CRYPTSETUP=y' /etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook
  
  echo RESUME=none > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
  
  update-initramfs -k all -u

• Install and configure grub:

  grub-install --uefi-secure-boot --target=x86_64-efi --boot-directory=/boot --efi-directory=/boot --recheck --no-nvram
  
  update-grub

• Install the default desktop:

  apt install ubuntu-desktop

• Exit the chroot and test your new installation:

  exit
  cd
  umount /mnt/boot
  umount /mnt/proc
  umount /mnt/sys
  umount /mnt/dev
  umount /mnt
  cryptsetup close /dev/mapper/cryptroot