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  • You should be using Grub2... Commented Dec 31, 2014 at 17:08
  • @frostschutz I am pretty sure that I do use Grub2 (grub package not grub-legacy). Commented Dec 31, 2014 at 17:12
  • @derobert Grub2 should be able to handle encrypted boot partitions as evident here. The only reason I have a seperate /boot volume is to keep the data in the beginning of the disk (to mitigate another problem ...). Commented Dec 31, 2014 at 17:13
  • @Florian wow, I did not know that. Nice. [BTW: Going to delete my not so useful comments.] Commented Dec 31, 2014 at 17:14
  • You should remove grub altogether. And you can do without lvm as well - bcache is a much more simple means of handling an ssd caching device. By the way - you do not need the separate /boot - already have that in your EFI-system partition. Put your initramfs and and system kernel on the esp in some folder, bind-mount that folder to /boot in /etc/fstab and then just directly load the kernel from firmware without an intermediate bootloader at all. They're only a headache anyway. If you want boot menus - ala grub - get something easier - rEFInd is nice. Commented Dec 31, 2014 at 19:47