Problem entering GELI password at boot

[Peter Maxwell]

I've seen similar behaviour recently intermittently on releng-9.1 on an
laptop (HP) with USB keyboard, and like you said I had also seen it a
number of years ago when 8.0 first came out with a desktop with USB
keyboard (iirc, it was an HP as well).  It seems fine most of the time but
occasionally it won't respond to keyboard input, especially if I've
accidentally left the computer for a few moments before attempting to enter
the passphrase.

Vaguely remember it was something to do with AHCI but it was years ago and
given it's not a massive problem the now I haven't bothered to look it up
again.



On 21 July 2013 14:55, <perox at freenet.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently up consists of a ZFS RAID-1 upon a GELI-encrypted container.
> Before the update I could enter the passphrases during boot (before root
> mount) via my USB keyboard and geli would created the nodes and root could
> be mounted.
> In 8.0 I had a related problem (some keystrokes would not be recognized)
> but this has been fixed since. Now the keyboard is functional (I can scroll
> up and down) but GELI doesn't recognize anything (not even 'return').
>
> Any ideas or hints?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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