GELI boot on root partition

[Balgansuren Batsukh]

I understand need to configure USB for boot media.

Balgaa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Dupre" <ale at FreeBSD.org>
To: "Balgansuren Batsukh" <balgaa at mongol.net>
Cc: <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: GELI boot on root partition


> 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).
>
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