Re: Reinstall on a geli encrypted device

Am Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:45:38 +0100
schrieb Marco Steinbach <coco@executive-computing.de>:

> 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
> 

Solved. Looks like I did the footshooting even before the installer
had a chance to intervene.

The 13-3a15ccad memstick image I built from source does not boot into
the installer almost anywhere I try, either hanging or crashing with
varying messages, while it'll work on some machines.

Using the official FreeBSD-13.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img works
flawlessly, albeit it's still tasting available geoms automatically,
which I rather it wouldn't.

MfG CoCo