GELI boot on root partition

Alex Dupre ale at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 21 06:59:16 PST 2006


Balgansuren Batsukh wrote:
> How can I boot kernel from /dev/ad0.elia partition?

You cannot boot the kernel from an encrypted partition. The kernel and 
the geom_eli.ko module should be loaded from an unencrypted partition 
(like a USB memory token) and then you can automatically mount 
/dev/ad0.elia as the root filesystem (if you have init'ed it with -b flag).

--
Alex Dupre


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