From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 02:41:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4FE1065673 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 02:41:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAD58FC17 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 02:41:13 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0M0E00M004SJOC00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:41:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.72.39]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0M0E009XO4SI7C10@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:41:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:41:05 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Robert Simmons Message-id: <4F5427C1.8000600@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.72.39 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.3.5.22725, SenderIP=76.210.72.39 References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120212 Thunderbird/10.0 Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Post installation shell X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:41:13 -0000 On 03/04/12 20:06, Robert Simmons wrote: > I've just finished getting everything right for installing to a geli > encrypted root partition. This requires the use of the shell in the > installer during the disk partitioning stage and at the end of the > install process. I've run into a problem: > > If you enter the shell at the end of the install process, the shell is > now chroot'ed to the newly installed partition that was mounted on > /mnt. The problem with this is that the functional /dev directory is > inaccessible. The /dev directory that is accessible is empty! > > This is not that big of a deal since, the very next thing the > installer offers you is the live-cd, which is not chroot'ed to /mnt it > is back to where you would expect it to be. > > Is this something that perhaps should be mentioned in documentation? > Better, it should be fixed so devfs works (now fixed in HEAD at r232531). Thanks for reporting this! -Nathan