Reinstall on a geli encrypted device
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Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 19:45:38 UTC
Hi there. I am trying to clean install 13 on a drive, which contains a functional geli-encrpyted zfsroot 12. I want the intaller (booted from a 13 memstick) to ignore what's on the drive. What happens is, that booting from the memstick asks me for the geli password for the drive. If I give the correct password, the installer will hang at 'can't find /boot/entropy'. If I repeatly give the wrong password, the installer also will hang at 'can't find /boot/entropy'. Pulling the drive, and dd'ing some starting sectors seems to be the only 'cure'. Is there a way to tell the installation media (in my case memstick) to not taste for whatever is there, but to ignore, and just leave me to whatever footshooting I may be up to ? MfG CoCo