Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:39:13 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: bob@vesterman.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GELI full disk, booting from thumb drive - can't get to /usr? Message-ID: <20090315123913.3755063b.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <58449.68.196.8.50.1237089816.squirrel@68.196.8.50> References: <58449.68.196.8.50.1237089816.squirrel@68.196.8.50>
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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:03:36 -0700 (PDT), bob@vesterman.com wrote: > I've been trying to set up a system (7.0 Release) with full-disk > encryption, using GELI, and booting from a thumb drive. When booting, it > gets as far as asking me for the passphrases of the various encrypted > disks; when I give them, GELI indicates that it successfully attached to > each, but after I've entered the last of them, the system puts out a bunch > of messages (most of which quickly scroll off my screen) looking like it's > trying to continue booting, but having problems. > > Those that are left when it finally stops scrolling seem to indicate that > it can't get to /usr. Here is what remains on my screen when it stops > scrolling: > > eval: /usr/sbin/sendmail: not found > /etc/rc: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/sbin/cron > Local package initialization: > dirname: not found > Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds. > logger: not found This indicates that your assumption is right, access to /usr is not possible. But what comes into my mind is that *if* /usr could not be mounted, the system is usually put into single user mode instead of continuing to boot. My suggestion: have you tried scolling up and looking for the first message that looks strange, maybe a message that says something about /usr? (Press the Scroll Lock key and use the arrow keys / page scrolling keys to access previous screen content.) > If I start up Fixit from a LiveFS CD, geli attach and mount what should be > /usr as something like "/myusr", I can see that all of the things I expect > to be there really are there (including, for example, libexec/getty). Does your thumb drive (for booting) something generally different than you do when starting with the LFS CD? -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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