GELI Passphrase at boottime

[army.of.root]

Felix Stolba wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I guess this problem has persisted since 6.0 or probably earlier, at
> least this is where I encountered it first.
> The geli passphrase prompt (at boottime) doesn't detect keyboard input
> correctly, sometimes it
> will detect a key pressed, sometimes it won't etc.
> 
> I know that disabling kbdmux helped with some people, here it doesn't
> change geli's behaviour.
> Also, having different keyboard mapping is out of the question.
> So, I helped myself with a little script in rc.conf:
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     test -e /dev/ad0s2.eli
>     if [ $? -ne 0 ] then
>         geli attach /dev/ad0s2
>     fi
> 
> Doing this plus removing the boot flag for the geli device did the
> trick, all input is detected when asked for passphrase.
> After being attached, the devices get checked for errors, fragmentation
> etc. and are mounted correctly as listed in /etc/fstab.
> 
> Maybe this can help s/o with similiar problems.
> 
> Felix

Hi,

there is already a way to attach geli disks via the rc.conf:

geli_devices="ad4"
geli_ad4_flags="-k /boot/keys/ad4.key"

regards