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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:11:51 +0800
From:      "Daniel Marsh" <jahilliya@gmail.com>
To:        "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk
Message-ID:  <ba5e78ea0710100811y56d28b7dma1e0771e7ed2e75b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <470CCDE2.9090603@ibctech.ca>
References:  <470CCDE2.9090603@ibctech.ca>

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On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI
> encrypted hard disk, but am having problems.
>
> All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be
> entered correctly upon boot. I have tried everything I have found on the
> web (including disabling 'kbdmux' in the kernel) to no avail.
>
> Is there any chance that anyone here has found a resolution to this
> problem, in the 6.x branch, and if not, has it been looked/resolved
> within -current?
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a workaround?


You could always use a key without a passphrase... unsafe as it is, put the
key on a usb device that you remove once the machine has booted?



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