geli not prompting for password on boot

[Adam Wood]

Hello,

My power has returned, and, as you suggested, I am getting
GEOM_ELI[1]: Tasting no more. written to the console.

I guess I'll try again once 6.1-RELEASE is available.

Thank you again for your help.

On 4/6/06, Adam Wood <aswood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, I see. It is currently using 6.0-RELEASE.
>
> I expect 6.1-RELEASE to be available soon, so perhaps I will wait.
> Unfortunately I am having power issues at the moment and cannot test
> with the debugging enabled. When it is available I will test and
> confirm.
>
> Thank you very much for your help. Thank you also for your amazing
> work on GELI. I think it's incredible.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Adam Wood
>
> On 4/6/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 08:33:55PM -0500, Adam Wood wrote:
> > +> Hello,
> > +>
> > +> I've recently began researching GELI and disk-encryption altogether
> > +> and have run into a problem.
> > +>
> > +> I've created a bootable media with the 6.0-RELEASE kernel with all the
> > +> standard modules. It also has geom_eli_load="YES" in loader.conf. I
> > +> also have the following /etc/fstab in the boot media:
> > +>
> > +> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump    Pass#
> > +> /dev/ad0.elib           none            swap    sw              0       0
> > +> /dev/ad0.elia           /               ufs     rw              1       1
> > +> /dev/ad0.elie           /tmp            ufs     rw              2       2
> > +> /dev/ad0.elif           /usr            ufs     rw              2       2
> > +> /dev/ad0.elid           /var            ufs     rw              2       2
> > +>
> > +> I created /dev/ad0.eli via the following:
> > +>
> > +> geli init -b -l 256 /dev/ad0
> > +>
> > +> and the partitions:
> > +>
> > +> bsdlabel -w /dev/ad0.eli
> > +> bsdlabel -e /dev/ad0.eli
> > +>
> > +> However, when I boot, I can see that geom_eli is loaded, but it does
> > +> not ever ask me for the password. I believe that is the point of the
> > +> -b argument I supplied to the geli init command.
> > +>
> > +> When I boot I am greeted with the following error:
> > +>
> > +> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0.elia
> > +>
> > +> Manual root filesystem specification:
> > +>  <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
> > +>                                  eg. ufs:da0s1a
> > +> ?                           List valid disk boot devices
> > +> <empty line>          Abort manual input
> > +>
> > +> mountroot>
> > +>
> > +> Any help you could provide would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Which FreeBSD version are you using? There could be a race in earlier
> > versions where geli stops waiting for providers before they actually
> > show up. You increase debug level to 1 by adding:
> >
> > kern.geom.eli.debug=1
> >
> > to the /boot/loader.conf and see when message "Tasting no more." is
> > printed.
> >
> > This problem is fixed in 6-STABLE and will be also in 6.1-RELEASE.
> >
> > --
> > Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
> > pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
> > FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
> >
> >
> >
>