Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:41:05 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Post installation shell Message-ID: <4F5427C1.8000600@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BQLa9BMvUUJ0%2BaBmKDdK3Bx29u15Hc4K8Tg5Q43v=Um7o_dpA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9BMvUUJ0%2BaBmKDdK3Bx29u15Hc4K8Tg5Q43v=Um7o_dpA@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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