[Bug 251583] FreeBSD/EC2 breakage w/ encrypted EBS volumes

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251583

--- Comment #6 from Billy <georgewilliamfoster at gmail.com> ---
My workaround is as follows:

1. Launch an instance with an unencrypted disk.

2. Attached an encrypted disk to the instance.

3. Run bsdinstall to set up the encrypted disk with a fresh installation of
FreeBSD.

4. Detach both disks from the instance.

5. Attach the encrypted disk to the instance as /dev/sda1 so that the instance
boots from the fresh installation.

I personally like this approach because it lets me customize the install rather
than use the settings selected in the AMI.

That said, if you like the AMI version, you can probably skip the bsdinstall
step and instead just dd from a working unencrypted disk to an attached
encrypted disk.

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