Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:14:11 +0100 From: Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reinstall on a geli encrypted device Message-ID: <20211129191411.000007ba@executive-computing.de> In-Reply-To: <20211128204538.00001020@executive-computing.de>
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Am Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:45:38 +0100 schrieb Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>: > Hi there. > > I am trying to clean install 13 on a drive, which contains a > functional geli-encrpyted zfsroot 12. I want the intaller (booted > from a 13 memstick) to ignore what's on the drive. > > What happens is, that booting from the memstick asks me for the geli > password for the drive. > > If I give the correct password, the installer will hang at 'can't find > /boot/entropy'. > > If I repeatly give the wrong password, the installer also will hang at > 'can't find /boot/entropy'. > > Pulling the drive, and dd'ing some starting sectors seems to be the > only 'cure'. > > Is there a way to tell the installation media (in my case memstick) to > not taste for whatever is there, but to ignore, and just leave me to > whatever footshooting I may be up to ? > > MfG CoCo > Solved. Looks like I did the footshooting even before the installer had a chance to intervene. The 13-3a15ccad memstick image I built from source does not boot into the installer almost anywhere I try, either hanging or crashing with varying messages, while it'll work on some machines. Using the official FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img works flawlessly, albeit it's still tasting available geoms automatically, which I rather it wouldn't. MfG CoCohome | help
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