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On Nov 29, 2021, 13:14, Marco Steinbach wrote:

> 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