I have a NVMe SSD that uses Opal2 encryption. It was set using sedutils-cli. Following the guide from https://sedutil.com/. Actually I have 3 PCs – 2 are on AMD platform (Zen5) and 1 is on Intel Platform (ArrowLake).
I have 0 problems setting the AMD platforms. RESCUE image worked perfectly. UEFI image worked perfectly too and everything is fine.
Few days ago I had to setup the very same thing on Intel platform (same manufacturer brand and model). First I have issues with the RESCUE image that it was not able to boot. After a lot of reading I found that adding “acpi=off” in the syslinux.cfg was the key to make it boot. Then I was able to follow the guide and prepare the encryption. At this point I realized that UEFI image was built in the same way as RESCUE so..it won’t be able to boot. I modified the UEFI image so it includes the “aspi=off” and I thought that I was ready.
The laptop booted from the shadow partition I entered the password, the disk is unlocked and…. everything freezes. The laptop cannot restart itself. So basically I can unlock the disk but then I have to completely shut it down which locks the disk again.
Based on what the AI told me the problem is that ArrowLake is new, syslinux is old and there could be some incompatibility. If this was true… then someone somewhere should have fixed it long ago. ArrowLake is almost 2 years ago and I cannot be the only one person using OPAL2 on ArrowLake. Sadly neither AI nor Google nor any information in the internet I found was able to solve the problem.
So… it is time for real intelligence. Basically.. how should I proceed? I just cannot accept that I’m the only one with this problem.
Thanks for advices!
