Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 8 Apr 2006 12:12:55 -0500
From:      "Adam Wood" <aswood@gmail.com>
To:        "Pawel Jakub Dawidek" <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geli not recognizing passphrase on boot (was: geli not prompting for password on boot)
Message-ID:  <77518d100604081012s61042645s149e32a9aa77b0f0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060408103834.GA2135@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <77518d100604071527o8a53760u3dce7b318655e7a9@mail.gmail.com> <20060408103834.GA2135@garage.freebsd.pl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 4/8/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> +> 7. Created bsdlabel on new, encrypted disk (bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0).
> You should bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0.eli.

Oops. That was a mistake in my directions. I had actually used
bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0.eli.

> +> 15. Edited boot/loader.conf and added geom_eli_load=3D"YES" and
> +> kern.geom.eli.debug=3D1.

> Please add kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=3D1 to the loader.conf as
> well.

> It doesn't. Try to enable visible_passphrase tunable and see if it gets
> the passphrase you type.

How weird! It seems to not be detecting keypresses. I had to hit the
key several times for it to register. Is there a reason for this? It
doesn't do this at any other time, so I don't think it is the
keyboard...



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?77518d100604081012s61042645s149e32a9aa77b0f0>