Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:19:26 +0100 From: Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not mounting a zpool at boot Message-ID: <20170124061926.GH19230@rail.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <687791b8fb5fbe3e3da20a2e1b4e5a88@dweimer.net> References: <911a347a-a94c-717b-0d6c-eb9fd665e489@rail.eu.org> <7b235b14-4547-299e-0943-02037ab28630@rail.eu.org> <687791b8fb5fbe3e3da20a2e1b4e5a88@dweimer.net>
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:49:14PM CET, "Dean E. Weimer" <dweimer@dweimer.net> said: > On 2017-01-23 3:23 pm, Erwan David wrote: > >Le 01/23/2017 à 22:20, Erwan David a écrit : > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have a machine (11-RELEASE) with 2 pools, one encrypted with the > > > > UNencrypted > > > >>system and one encrypted with data. I want to boot without having to > >>enter passphrase then ssh to the machine to import the encrypted pool. > >> > >>I put geli_devices="" in /etc/rc.conf in order to prevent the passphrase > >>question, but to no avail, system still asks it. How can I boot without > >>importing the encrypted pool, nor giving the passphrase (US keyboard is > >>unsuitable for this). > >> > > Do you have geom_eli_load="YES" set in your /boot/loader.conf? If you don't > want to load the GELI volumes I think you can simply remove that. Once you > login and issue the geli attach command it should auto load the kernel > modules. I have a SATA drive in a hot swapable bay encrypted with GELI for > my backups. I have no problems with the system booting and not prompting for > password. Then once its booted I login and attach the geli volume so that > backups can run. > > Without the GELI modules loaded at boot time it shouldn't be able to > determine that there are encrypted volumes and just ignore them at boot > time. Yes I load the geli module, but need it for the gmirror+geli swap... -- Erwan
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