Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:10:12 +0200 From: "Frank J. Beckmann" <frank@barda.agala.net> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a bootable USB stick for booting a geli encryptet hard disk? Message-ID: <200604192310.12885.frank@barda.agala.net> In-Reply-To: <77518d100604190945o66fa078fhb36f8015e7a2406a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200604181653.55129.frank@barda.agala.net> <200604191615.31768.frank@barda.agala.net> <77518d100604190945o66fa078fhb36f8015e7a2406a@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 18:45 schrieb Adam Wood: > OdO3ULuGyo4tN6d8ZP1h1w=3D > > On 4/19/06, Frank J. Beckmann <frank@barda.agala.net> wrote: > > Thank you very much for your detailed description. It tells me that I > > have done everything right. I prepared the USB device like you described > > it, but none of my two computers is alble to boot the USB device. One > > always tells me "ivalid slice" and the other "invalid label". Because of > > that I think there is some geometry problem. I guess the bios uses > > another geometry than FreeBSD does. Or something else is completely > > wrong. > > You might try using a CD-R, then. For this, you'll need access to > another (FreeBSD) system that has sysutils/cdrtools installed on it > (mkisofs is part of sysutils/cdrtools). A CD or DVD is not an option. It has to be an USB device. The big question = is=20 why does booting the USB device not work? =2D-=20 Tsch=FCss =46rank
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