Your description is very meandering and so it is difficult to discern what bug you are trying to describe. Let's try to focus it up. If I understand you correctly, you had no problem at all without truecrypt, but with truecrypt, you had difficulty installing grub to a partition instead of the MBR, and had to disable the vt.handoff boot option in order to get the luks prompt, and still gnome won't load?
** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/979971 Title: grub install to partition fails with 12.04 alternate & LUKS multiboot setup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/979971/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs