vt(4) and geli(8)

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:36:51 -0500 (CDT)
Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-stable at tharned.org> wrote:

> The new vt system console looks really nice.  But on hosts that have
> geli encrypted devices that prompt for the passphrase at boot, no
> keyboard input reaches geli.  The keyboard doesn't appear to be dead,

do you have / encrypted?

I use geli but have only /usr/home encrypted and no problems.

You might have to load vt via loader.conf or put it into the kernel.

Wait, is there a chicken-egg problem?

Erich