geli keyfiles won't load automatically at boot time
Dewayne Geraghty
dewayne.geraghty at heuristicsystems.com.au
Tue Mar 6 22:08:03 UTC 2012
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> xenophon\+freebsd
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2012 5:03 AM
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: geli keyfiles won't load automatically at boot time
>
> Whether I boot from an unencrypted UFS partition or from a
> CD, I cannot get the boot loader to load my geli keyfiles
> automatically. I always have to interrupt the boot process
> and issue "load_geli" commands for each provider and its
> corresponding keyfile. Other settings in /boot/loader.conf
> get read and applied correctly - kernel modules, root file
> system specification, boot hints, etc. Here are the relevant
> lines from /boot/loader.conf:
>
> geom_eli_load="YES"
> geli_ada0p2_keyfile0_load="YES"
> geli_ada0p2_keyfile0_type="ada0p2:geli_keyfile0"
> geli_ada0p2_keyfile0_file="/boot/keys/ada0p2.key"
Suggest that you try
geli_ada0p2_keyfile0_name="/boot/keys/ada0p2.key"
Etc.
Regards, Dewayne.
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