Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:31:47 -0600 From: "Corey J. Bukolt" <0.23@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Temporarily halt boot process to enter encryption keys? Message-ID: <4B1F5263.1060907@mail.ru>
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Hello list, I have a FreeNAS box with a CF card for root, and 3 drives (soon to be 4) set up with encryption and raidz on top of them. A less than excellent detailed report of what I did is here: http://bit.ly/5BeZq8 This setup is a bit hackish as after the system boots I need to attach each drive using geli, run "zpool import -f primary", and then restart all my services (nfs, samba, etc). It's become a bit of a chore (especially when doing it all from a N810), so I'm looking for a way to temporary halt the boot process so that I can ssh in, attach the drives, and then allow the system to continue to boot. A few ideas come to mind, such as meddling with rc scripts, but I'd like to get some suggestions from the more experienced FreeBSD hackers before I go off breaking my system. Thanks, ~Corey
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