How to make a bootable USB stick for booting a geli encryptethard disk?

Frank J. Beckmann frank at barda.agala.net
Thu Apr 20 11:12:37 UTC 2006


Hi,

am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 08:59 schrieb daniele.pilenga at atosorigin.com:
> owner-freebsd-geom at freebsd.org wrote on 20/04/2006 02:03:44:
> > Hi,
> >
> > am Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 00:36 schrieb Terje Elde:
> > > Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
> > > >> You might try using a CD-R, then. For this, you'll need access to
> > > >> another (FreeBSD) system that has sysutils/cdrtools installed on it
> > > >> (mkisofs is part of sysutils/cdrtools).
> > > >
> > > > A CD or DVD is not an option. It has to be an USB device. The big
> > > > question is why does booting the USB device not work?
>
> Why don't you just create an unencrypted /boot partition to boot from?

Than everybody who has acces to the computer can get the encryptet data. I 
need an easy removable boot device that I can easily carry around with me.

> I did that on my home computer and after I added
>
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:mirror/system.elia"
>
> to /boot/loader.conf it boots with all the system on GELI.
>
> To find out the above setting was the tricky part as the Handbook is poor
> of details. :-)

Yes, but there are many kind people here who explain waht to do.
-- 
Bye
Frank


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