Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:06:41 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reinstall on a geli encrypted device Message-ID: <20211130180641.0752b1e8@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <20211129191411.000007ba@executive-computing.de> References: <20211128204538.00001020@executive-computing.de> <20211129191411.000007ba@executive-computing.de>
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--Sig_/woaTom5yAONehbaYMnsKQie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> wrote on 2021-11-29: > Am Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:45:38 +0100 > schrieb Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>: > > I am trying to clean install 13 on a drive, which contains a > > functional geli-encrpyted zfsroot 12. I want the intaller (booted > > from a 13 memstick) to ignore what's on the drive. > >=20 > > What happens is, that booting from the memstick asks me for the geli > > password for the drive. > >=20 > > If I give the correct password, the installer will hang at 'can't find > > /boot/entropy'. > >=20 > > If I repeatly give the wrong password, the installer also will hang at > > 'can't find /boot/entropy'. > >=20 > > Pulling the drive, and dd'ing some starting sectors seems to be the > > only 'cure'. > >=20 > > Is there a way to tell the installation media (in my case memstick) to > > not taste for whatever is there, but to ignore, and just leave me to > > whatever footshooting I may be up to ? > Solved. Looks like I did the footshooting even before the installer > had a chance to intervene. >=20 > The 13-3a15ccad memstick image I built from source does not boot into > the installer almost anywhere I try, either hanging or crashing with > varying messages, while it'll work on some machines. >=20 > Using the official FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img works > flawlessly, albeit it's still tasting available geoms automatically, > which I rather it wouldn't. You can prevent geli from trying to attach providers at boot time by setting kern.geom.eli.tries=3D0 in /boot/loader.conf on the memstick. Fabian --Sig_/woaTom5yAONehbaYMnsKQie Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTKUNd6H/m3+ByGULIFiohV/3dUnQUCYaZaIgAKCRAFiohV/3dU nTcuAKCDrYIoz0hQh4u4HlColw4ks3Vm2gCgmm9gWIOoc47xbmbqmbxzUCxmH2U= =J3Cw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/woaTom5yAONehbaYMnsKQie--
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