Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:12:21 +0200 From: "Frank J. Beckmann" <frank@barda.agala.net> To: daniele.pilenga@atosorigin.com, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a bootable USB stick for booting a geli encryptethard disk? Message-ID: <200604201312.22878.frank@barda.agala.net> In-Reply-To: <OFADADB678.B8C36EE7-ONC1257156.00259BB1-C1257156.00267353@Gruppo.Bipielle> References: <OFADADB678.B8C36EE7-ONC1257156.00259BB1-C1257156.00267353@Gruppo.Bipielle>
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Hi, am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 08:59 schrieb daniele.pilenga@atosorigin.com: > owner-freebsd-geom@freebsd.org wrote on 20/04/2006 02:03:44: > > Hi, > > > > am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 00:36 schrieb Terje Elde: > > > Frank J. Beckmann wrote: > > > >> 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 why does booting the USB device not work? > > Why don't you just create an unencrypted /boot partition to boot from? Than everybody who has acces to the computer can get the encryptet data. I need an easy removable boot device that I can easily carry around with me. > I did that on my home computer and after I added > > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:mirror/system.elia" > > to /boot/loader.conf it boots with all the system on GELI. > > To find out the above setting was the tricky part as the Handbook is poor > of details. :-) Yes, but there are many kind people here who explain waht to do. -- Bye Frank
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