kern/141011: [geli] Encrypted root, geli password at boot; enter key never released

Guido van Rooij guido at gvr.org
Wed Jan 6 12:50:06 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR kern/141011; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Guido van Rooij <guido at gvr.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, leclercn at videotron.ca
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/141011: [geli] Encrypted root, geli password at boot;
	enter key never released
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:22:01 +0100

 I have the same problem, but only when I have hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1.
 When I do not set this tunable, I never get the prompt for the
 GELI password. In stead, the system keeps printing: "Root mount
 waiting for: usbus4".
 Inserting the USB keyboad after entering the GELI password works okay.
 
 -Guido


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