Chapter 5. Troubleshooting
In some circumstances you may need to access to the data of the encrypted partition without booting the computer. Here are some method to do so.
5.1. Boot in recovery mode
Boot on the USB stick and select recovery mode.
Select root Drop to root shell prompt
Mount /
with a read write access and mount /boot
using the following commands
mount -oremount,rw /
mount /dev/sdb2 /boot
As you are using you startup key to boot your PC, you are identified to be the owner of the machine. If you used a keyfile, you will be granted a root access without any password. Without the key such a startup is impossible and you will have to follow the instruction of the next chapter to access to your data.