From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 14:53:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C58716A400 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:53:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@barda.agala.net) Received: from mail.agala.net (Qa004.q.pppool.de [89.53.160.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EA043D48 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:53:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@barda.agala.net) Received: from mail.agala.net (barda [192.168.20.1]) by barda.agala.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136F2119D0E for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:53:56 +0200 (CEST) From: "Frank J. Beckmann" Organization: agala naga doron To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:53:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604181653.55129.frank@barda.agala.net> Subject: How to make a bootable USB stick for booting a geli encryptet hard disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:53:57 -0000 Hi, I plan to encrypt the whole hard drive with geli. That is reaaly well documented and every thing went ok. But there is one thing that does not work. How do I make a bootable USB stick? I need it because the root partition of the hard drive is encrypted too. I tried to make a bootable USB stick with sysinstall and also with fdisk. I tried to do it on my new Athlon 64 board and on and old Pentium III board. The result is always the same: When I try to boot from the stick the Athlon 64 always says "invalid slice". And the P III always tells my "invalid label". That look like some kind of geometry problem. Can anybody help my please? I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RC. Sorry if this gets posted twice. -- Bye Frank