geli password prompt does not work

Martin nakal at nurfuerspam.de
Fri Apr 28 06:37:21 UTC 2006


Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> +> And after detecting the DVD-ROM, geom_eli waits as usually, but I
> +> cannot enter the password. Maybe the keyboard is just blocked?
> +> That might explain why I cannot enter the debugger.
> 
> Could be, kbdmux is now on by default, AFAIK. Could you try without it?


I switched off kbdmux by adding hint.kbdmux.0.disabled="1" into
/boot/device.hints. Now the password can be entered again.

Thank you,
Martin



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